A394 crash in Cornwall on 26 July 2009 at 01:10 involving a Nissan D22 van
A Nissan D22 van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A394 in Cornwall at 01:10 on Sunday 26 July 2009. The 19-year-old male driver of the Nissan D22 van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2009
- Sunday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan D22 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.11375, longitude -5.41033, in the TR20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950AH2C008
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 394
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 1999.
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 18 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199950A234835
Slight
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 4 August 1979
At the same spotRef 197950A031391
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 25 July 2012
3 m awayRef 201250AH2C004
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 21 December 2012
3 m awayRef 201250AH2C011
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 2 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025501662565
Slight
Car crash on the A394 in Cornwall, 19 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198550A310832
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan D22
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan D22)
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 200950AH2C008 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 2009.