A3075 crash in Cornwall on 30 October 2013 at 15:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A3075 in Cornwall at 15:00 on Wednesday 30 October 2013. The 37-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.31498, longitude -5.1373, in the TR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350GR2B021
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3075
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2015.
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 25 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201550GR2B012
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 28 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201550GR2B025
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 8 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201150GR2B010
Serious
Car crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 18 October 2009
2 m awayRef 200950GR2B027
Serious
Car crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 3 July 2006
2 m awayRef 200650A41H820
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 18 May 2002
2 m awayRef 200250A411858
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 201350GR2B021 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 2013.