A390 crash in Cornwall on 4 January 2008 at 10:53 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A390 in Cornwall at 10:53 on Friday 4 January 2008. A 10-year-old male passenger, a 12-year-old female passenger and a 14-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2008
- Friday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.441, longitude -4.57301, in the PL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850B51A059
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 390
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 8 February 1987.
Fatal
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 8 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198750B510136
Fatal
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 14 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198950B510587
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 17 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198250B510279
Serious
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 4 June 1979
At the same spotRef 197950B150708
Serious
Car crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 21 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198950B510751
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A390 in Cornwall, 8 June 1979
At the same spotRef 197950B150727
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 200850B51A059 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 2008.