A30 crash in Cornwall on 2 July 2012 at 15:33 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2012
- Monday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.19245, longitude -5.39842, in the TR27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hayle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gwinear-Gwithian & Hayle East, Cornwall, TR27 4DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250AY2C007
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 July 2017
58 m awayRef 2017500210865
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 December 2025
79 m awayRef 2025501679680
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 27 August 2025
97 m awayRef 2025501634031
Fatal
Scania crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 13 March 2018
97 m awayRef 2018500276506
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 5 April 1981
99 m awayRef 198150A050604
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 23 February 2003
112 m awayRef 200350A33B761
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 201250AY2C007 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 2012.