A39 crash in Cornwall on 24 April 2017 at 08:07 involving an MG ZR
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2017
- Monday, 08:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77216, longitude -4.5425, 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
- 2017500179951
- 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
- Dry
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2015.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 8 January 2015
1 m awayRef 201550BU2F001
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 11 October 2025
36 m awayRef 2025501653193
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 18 January 2008
44 m awayRef 200850B71A670
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 23 August 2015
101 m awayRef 201550BU2F006
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 21 May 2002
136 m awayRef 200250B711883
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 15 December 2018
141 m awayRef 2018500806393
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2017500179951 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 2017.