A374 crash in Cornwall on 15 April 2009 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the A374 in Cornwall at 16:45 on Wednesday 15 April 2009. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2009
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 106 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38868, longitude -4.32382, in the PL11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950BS2A014
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 374
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 22 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198050B220587
Serious
Car crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 20 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198950B610974
Fatal
Car crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 22 October 1984
60 m awayRef 198450B621622
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 12 February 1989
90 m awayRef 198950B620223
Serious
Kawasaki KH125 crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 19 April 1990
90 m awayRef 199050B610573
Serious
Lorry crash on the A374 in Cornwall, 30 July 1985
90 m awayRef 198550B611018
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 200950BS2A014 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 2009.