A395 crash in Cornwall on 6 May 2021 at 11:07 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a Ford C-Max were involved in a crash on the A395 in Cornwall at 11:07 on Thursday 6 May 2021. The 58-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Partner van and the 63-year-old male driver of the Ford C-Max were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2021
- Thursday, 11:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6405, longitude -4.5221, in the PL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501049562
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 395
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 3 May 2006
13 m awayRef 200650B21F193
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 11 January 2000
19 m awayRef 200050B210090
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 27 August 1999
19 m awayRef 199950B313278
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 14 December 2020
222 m awayRef 2020501015948
Slight
Car crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 25 June 1982
342 m awayRef 198250B210725
Serious
Car crash on the A395 in Cornwall, 18 March 1985
381 m awayRef 198550B210307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2021501049562 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 2021.