A30 crash in Cornwall on 27 August 2025 at 16:25 involving a Renault Master van
A Renault Master van and a Peugeot Boxer van were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 16:25 on Wednesday 27 August 2025. The 33-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Boxer van 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
- 27 Aug 2025
- Wednesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Master and Peugeot Boxer
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.19165, longitude -5.39828, in the TR27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gwinear-Gwithian & Hayle East, Cornwall, TR27 4DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501634031
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 March 2018.
Fatal
Scania crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 13 March 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500276506
Serious
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 December 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501679680
Serious
Datsun Bluebird crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 September 1990
70 m awayRef 199050A331473
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 15 June 2008
72 m awayRef 200850AY2H003
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Cornwall, 2 February 1990
81 m awayRef 199050A330180
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 23 February 2003
81 m awayRef 200350A33B761
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Boxer
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot Boxer)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025501634031 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.