A3075 crash in Cornwall on 23 September 2023 at 09:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the A3075 in Cornwall at 09:20 on Saturday 23 September 2023. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 19-year-old male passenger in the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2023
- Saturday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.31702, longitude -5.13604, in the TR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501355500
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3075
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2006.
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 17 February 2006
3 m awayRef 200650A42B985
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 21 March 1987
13 m awayRef 198750A420372
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 9 October 2001
13 m awayRef 200150A413976
Slight
Car crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 22 March 1987
13 m awayRef 198750A420373
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 18 August 2004
16 m awayRef 200450A41L539
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A3075 in Cornwall, 16 August 2008
16 m awayRef 200850GR2B016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2023501355500 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 2023.