Unclassified road crash in Cornwall EX23 on 8 July 2025 at 14:44 involving a Ford Ka+
A Ford Ka+ and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 14:44 on Tuesday 8 July 2025. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Ka+ was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 14:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ka+ and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89563, longitude -4.48969, 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
- 2025501617897
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 164 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in Cornwall, 3 September 1992
164 m awayRef 199250B711189
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cornwall, 8 November 2007
183 m awayRef 200750B71N625
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 July 1988
251 m awayRef 198850B710909
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 2 December 1998
357 m awayRef 199850C217257
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 30 October 1996
371 m awayRef 199650C233404
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 21 March 1997
509 m awayRef 199750C210990
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ka+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Ka+)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025501617897 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.