A390 crash in Cornwall on 30 December 2011 at 09:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Citroen C2 were involved in a crash on the A390 in Cornwall at 09:10 on Friday 30 December 2011. The 35-year-old female driver of the Citroen C2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2011
- Friday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45108, longitude -4.53922, in the PL14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liskeard South & Dobwalls, Cornwall, PL14 6LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150BD2G012
- 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
- 60 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 March 2012.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 31 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201250BD2G006
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 30 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201550BD2G016
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 26 November 2019
2 m awayRef 2019500907734
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 31 May 2010
4 m awayRef 201050BD2G004
Slight
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 8 May 1989
4 m awayRef 198950B510707
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 28 January 2004
4 m awayRef 200450B51B192
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
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 201150BD2G012 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 2011.