Serious A389 crash in Cornwall on 2 February 2012 at 03:36 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A389 in Cornwall at 03:36 on Thursday 2 February 2012. The 18-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 22-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 03:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48318, longitude -4.76034, in the PL30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250BB2I002
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 389
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 9 August 1999
6 m awayRef 199950B312902
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 28 July 2000
15 m awayRef 200050B313090
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 11 August 1991
15 m awayRef 199150B311076
Slight
Car crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 30 December 1995
30 m awayRef 199550B311795
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 23 December 2003
46 m awayRef 200350B31R626
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A389 in Cornwall, 21 January 2000
66 m awayRef 200050B310291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 201250BB2I002 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.