A389 crash in Cornwall on 20 July 2005 at 07:50 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A389 in Cornwall at 07:50 on Wednesday 20 July 2005. The 45-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2005
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47193, longitude -4.7045, in the PL31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bodmin. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bodmin St Petroc's, Cornwall, PL31 2UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550B31J050
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 389
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 4 June 2020.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 4 June 2020
1 m awayRef 2020500959251
Slight
Car crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 12 January 1988
10 m awayRef 198850B310063
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 25 January 1993
14 m awayRef 199350B310026
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 14 January 2005
32 m awayRef 200550B31A349
Serious
Nissan Leaf crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 27 November 2015
34 m awayRef 201550BB2K040
Slight
Kia Cerato crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 5 January 2013
34 m awayRef 201350BB2K001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200550B31J050 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 2005.