A39 crash in Cornwall on 2 September 2004 at 15:30 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A39 in Cornwall at 15:30 on Thursday 2 September 2004. The 44-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Freelander, a male passenger in the Land Rover Freelander and a male passenger in the Land Rover Freelander were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2004
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67441, longitude -4.61393, in the PL32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450B72M403
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3262
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2006.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 23 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200650B72O917
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B3262 in Cornwall, 25 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020500978545
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B3262 in Cornwall, 14 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500800458
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 23 December 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500807441
Serious
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 2 October 2011
4 m awayRef 201150BC2B001
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 6 November 2024
11 m awayRef 2024501513769
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200450B72M403 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.