B3271 crash in Cornwall on 9 February 2012 at 15:00 involving a Peugeot Expert
A Peugeot Expert and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B3271 in Cornwall at 15:00 on Thursday 9 February 2012. The 66-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Expert was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4134, longitude -4.23919, in the PL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saltash. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltash Tamar, Cornwall, PL12 6LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250BS2G006
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3271
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3271 in Cornwall, 19 April 2019
9 m awayRef 2019500835470
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 31 December 1985
18 m awayRef 198550B611907
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 4 December 1985
26 m awayRef 198550B311757
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in Cornwall, 22 November 1986
29 m awayRef 198650B612187
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3271 in Cornwall, 2 October 2015
29 m awayRef 201550BS2G031
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 28 January 2004
32 m awayRef 200450B61B471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
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 201250BS2G006 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 2012.