A38 crash in Cornwall on 20 January 2005 at 07:26 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106, a Scania lorry and a Volvo V40 were involved in a crash on the A38 in Cornwall at 07:26 on Thursday 20 January 2005. The 50-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 106 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2005
- Thursday, 07:26
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 106 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43287, longitude -4.43709, in the PL14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Cleer & Menheniot, Cornwall, PL14 3QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550B51A741
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 January 2007.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 23 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200750B51A891
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 5 June 2023
5 m awayRef 2023501322750
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 23 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025501660580
Slight
ERF crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 22 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200250B513420
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 15 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200750B51D232
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 15 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199650B512972
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,731 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 200550B51A741 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 2005.