Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL30 on 26 July 2025 at 13:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 13:30 on Saturday 26 July 2025. The 34-year-old male driver 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
- 26 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50452, longitude -4.67222, in the PL30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501621297
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2020.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 3 October 2020
8 m awayRef 2020501001526
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 22 May 2015
26 m awayRef 201550BB2F004
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 7 October 2004
27 m awayRef 200450B31O399
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 5 October 1986
52 m awayRef 198650B311898
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 1 October 2008
85 m awayRef 200850BB2F010
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 July 1987
104 m awayRef 198750B310821
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 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 2025501621297 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.