B3269 crash in Cornwall on 8 August 2001 at 23:00 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the B3269 in Cornwall at 23:00 on Wednesday 8 August 2001. A 16-year-old male passenger and a 16-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
- 8 Aug 2001
- Wednesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41013, longitude -4.68901, in the PL22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150B413097
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3269
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B3269 in Cornwall, 17 June 2011
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Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 June 2023
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Fatal
Fiat Ducato crash on the B3269 in Cornwall, 14 April 1996
100 m awayRef 199650B421061
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B3269 in Cornwall, 22 February 2021
112 m awayRef 2021501023793
Slight
Claas crash on the B3269 in Cornwall, 8 May 2017
118 m awayRef 2017500183933
Slight
Car crash on the B3269 in Cornwall, 22 February 2025
118 m awayRef 2025501561128
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- 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 200150B413097 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 2001.