A391 crash in Cornwall on 7 March 2004 at 23:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A391 in Cornwall at 23:10 on Sunday 7 March 2004. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Honda Civic and the male driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2004
- Sunday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42173, longitude -4.76978, in the PL26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450B41D104
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 391
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 November 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 4 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198850B411707
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 22 November 2006
32 m awayRef 200650B41O689
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 16 August 2003
41 m awayRef 200350B31J568
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 24 July 2019
42 m awayRef 2019500948793
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 21 November 2016
51 m awayRef 2016500144944
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A391 in Cornwall, 3 October 2024
91 m awayRef 2024501499725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200450B41D104 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 2004.