Serious A30 crash in Cornwall on 18 December 2006 at 13:51 involving a car
Five cars and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 13:51 on Monday 18 December 2006. A 74-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2006
- Monday, 13:51
- Vehicles
- 6
- Car and 5 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.51584, longitude -4.64931, in the PL30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650B31P956
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 August 1996.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 13 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199650B312353
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 7 January 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501538566
Slight
Scania crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 19 July 2016
20 m awayRef 2016500094310
Serious
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 16 July 2009
45 m awayRef 200950BB2F005
Slight
Van crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 8 November 2019
56 m awayRef 2019500905339
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 21 March 1994
67 m awayRef 199450B310498
Vehicles involved (6)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
Vehicle 6: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200650B31P956 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 2006.