A388 crash in Cornwall on 23 February 2017 at 18:30 involving a Honda Civic
A goods vehicle and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A388 in Cornwall at 18:30 on Thursday 23 February 2017. The 51-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2017
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61726, longitude -4.33961, in the PL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500160751
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 388
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 17 April 1989
60 m awayRef 198950B210561
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 14 October 2025
68 m awayRef 2025501654599
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 8 January 2015
93 m awayRef 201550BL2O001
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A384 in Cornwall, 20 February 1992
102 m awayRef 199250B210200
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A388 in Cornwall, 14 May 2014
126 m awayRef 201450BL2O001
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A384 in Cornwall, 6 July 1990
143 m awayRef 199050B211098
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- 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 2017500160751 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 2017.