B3297 crash in Cornwall on 28 November 2009 at 12:40 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B3297 in Cornwall at 12:40 on Saturday 28 November 2009. The 20-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i30 and the 55-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2009
- Saturday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i30 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.18031, longitude -5.24793, in the TR13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950AH2E021
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3297
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 slight injury crash on 30 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 30 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198750A232115
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 15 March 1996
20 m awayRef 199650A230728
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 19 May 2009
30 m awayRef 200950AH2E009
Serious
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 3 October 1981
50 m awayRef 198150A061976
Serious
Car crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 1 March 1981
63 m awayRef 198150A060395
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the B3297 in Cornwall, 13 January 2020
66 m awayRef 2020500922434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200950AH2E021 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.