B3311 crash in Cornwall on 25 August 2021 at 02:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the B3311 in Cornwall at 02:00 on Wednesday 25 August 2021. The 18-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 2021
- Wednesday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.13835, longitude -5.5204, in the TR20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501090133
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3311
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2021.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 June 2021
20 m awayRef 2021501063778
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 21 June 1980
21 m awayRef 198050A031081
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 29 July 1982
22 m awayRef 198250A311436
Slight
Lexus IS 250 crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 22 November 2025
25 m awayRef 2025501672298
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 5 July 2014
26 m awayRef 201450AP2H007
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B3311 in Cornwall, 8 June 2015
26 m awayRef 201550AP2H003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021501090133 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 2021.