Serious B3294 crash in Cornwall on 10 August 2007 at 00:01 involving a Ford Puma
A Ford Puma crashed on the B3294 in Cornwall at 00:01 on Friday 10 August 2007. The 26-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2007
- Friday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Puma
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.02924, longitude -5.10086, in the TR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750A23J550
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3294
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1997.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 6 August 1997
100 m awayRef 199750A232745
Slight
Car crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 2 April 1985
189 m awayRef 198550A230514
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 4 August 1996
316 m awayRef 199650A232514
Slight
Car crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 13 June 1989
349 m awayRef 198950A230843
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 20 March 2018
360 m awayRef 2018500278688
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3294 in Cornwall, 30 June 1985
433 m awayRef 198550A231100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Puma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Puma)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200750A23J550 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 2007.