A3082 crash in Cornwall on 12 March 2025 at 01:17 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A3082 in Cornwall at 01:17 on Wednesday 12 March 2025. The 19-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Wednesday, 01:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34296, longitude -4.71227, in the PL24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501563892
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3082
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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, 101 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 16 March 1979
101 m awayRef 197950B200294
Serious
Car crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 11 July 1987
119 m awayRef 198750B410825
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 17 February 2005
144 m awayRef 200550B41C153
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 18 April 2001
144 m awayRef 200150B411394
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 10 December 2004
154 m awayRef 200450B42R547
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A3082 in Cornwall, 28 November 2000
164 m awayRef 200050B414569
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025501563892 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 2025.