Serious B3285 crash in Cornwall on 30 April 2016 at 22:24 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the B3285 in Cornwall at 22:24 on Saturday 30 April 2016. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously 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
- 30 Apr 2016
- Saturday, 22:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34878, longitude -5.12988, in the TR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500066847
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3285
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 5 July 1979
7 m awayRef 197950A091130
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 18 June 1984
27 m awayRef 198450A421001
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 9 July 1998
48 m awayRef 199850A412396
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 8 June 2009
59 m awayRef 200950GR2D008
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 30 May 1999
113 m awayRef 199950A411836
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the B3285 in Cornwall, 13 October 2002
141 m awayRef 200250A214388
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016500066847 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 2016.