Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL22 on 18 July 2025 at 09:58 involving a Volkswagen UP
A Volkswagen UP and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 09:58 on Friday 18 July 2025. The 30-year-old female driver of the Citroen C4 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2025
- Friday, 09:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen UP and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40866, longitude -4.6169, in the PL22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501618149
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 188 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2005.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 12 March 2005
188 m awayRef 200550B41C963
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 July 2006
711 m awayRef 200650B41H896
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 13 January 2004
724 m awayRef 200450B41A635
Slight
Toyota crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 19 August 2004
729 m awayRef 200450B42L662
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 10 July 1985
1.0 km awayRef 198550B420890
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 March 2001
1.4 km awayRef 200150B521013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen UP
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025501618149 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.