A390 crash in Cornwall on 20 June 2005 at 10:00 involving a Skoda Octavia
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2005
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.33922, longitude -4.7595, in the PL25 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Austell. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Austell Bethel & Holmbush, Cornwall, PL25 3FR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550B41H435
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 390
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2010.
Serious
Mitsubishi crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 11 December 2010
At the same spotRef 201050GA2Q045
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 1900 DNS crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 23 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199850B410937
Slight
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 26 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198850B411100
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 24 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200550B41D440
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 11 January 1986
At the same spotRef 198650B410051
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 10 July 2023
4 m awayRef 2023501375032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,892 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200550B41H435 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.