A3083 crash in Cornwall on 30 September 2020 at 21:36 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the A3083 in Cornwall at 21:36 on Wednesday 30 September 2020. The 32-year-old male driver and a 3-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2020
- Wednesday, 21:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 49.99398, longitude -5.21007, in the TR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500989308
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3083
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 30 March 1992
46 m awayRef 199250A230436
Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 17 July 2017
128 m awayRef 2017500203296
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 27 July 1998
145 m awayRef 199850A232618
Slight
Car crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 4 March 1980
202 m awayRef 198050A060375
Slight
Volvo C 30 crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 5 September 2020
322 m awayRef 2020500989089
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A3083 in Cornwall, 13 February 2023
476 m awayRef 2023501276784
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2020500989308 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 2020.