A39 crash in Cornwall on 8 November 2004 at 16:16 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2004
- Monday, 16:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8528, longitude -4.51462, in the EX23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450B71P911
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 10 January 1992
22 m awayRef 199250B710037
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 27 August 2025
130 m awayRef 2025501633997
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 27 June 1986
161 m awayRef 198650B711081
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 14 June 1982
172 m awayRef 198250B710669
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 6 October 2008
211 m awayRef 200850BU2L011
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 25 February 1980
260 m awayRef 198050B290201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200450B71P911 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 2004.