Serious A38 crash in Cornwall on 19 June 2018 at 08:03 involving a Ford Fiesta
Two Ford Fiestas and a Peugeot 2008 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Cornwall at 08:03 on Tuesday 19 June 2018. The 25-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 60-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 2008 were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 08:03
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.458, longitude -4.68556, in the PL30 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bodmin St Petroc's, Cornwall, PL30 4AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500306513
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2011.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 8 September 2011
4 m awayRef 201150BB2K033
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 26 September 2025
22 m awayRef 2025501661546
Serious
Van crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 1 June 1989
57 m awayRef 198950B310862
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 7 November 2001
75 m awayRef 200150B314438
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 22 October 1980
82 m awayRef 198050B191471
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 17 May 1990
82 m awayRef 199050B310700
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 2008)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018500306513 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 2018.