A39 crash in Cornwall on 28 March 2025 at 15:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a car were involved in a crash on the A39 in Cornwall at 15:00 on Friday 28 March 2025. The 22-year-old female driver of the car and a 21-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.52871, longitude -4.80672, in the PL27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501570769
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 June 2022.
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 2 June 2022
2 m awayRef 2022501183842
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 April 2004
4 m awayRef 200450B32F034
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 19 September 2014
4 m awayRef 201450BW3S011
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 31 January 2006
4 m awayRef 200650B32B890
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 26 August 2013
4 m awayRef 201350BW3S008
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Cornwall, 23 April 2011
4 m awayRef 201150BW3S001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025501570769 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.