A38 crash in Cornwall on 14 July 2017 at 15:39 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A38 in Cornwall at 15:39 on Friday 14 July 2017. The 30-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 33-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2017
- Friday, 15:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40814, longitude -4.20344, in the PL12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltash Essa, Cornwall, PL12 4EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500205948
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2003.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 26 February 2003
4 m awayRef 200350E41B678
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 5 August 1993
4 m awayRef 199350E412228
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 8 October 1988
4 m awayRef 198850E411825
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 23 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199150B610959
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 29 May 1982
4 m awayRef 198250E420719
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 4 July 2009
4 m awayRef 200950BS2C016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
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 2017500205948 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.