Unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL15 on 27 August 2025 at 20:14 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van crashed on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 20:14 on Wednesday 27 August 2025. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 2025
- Wednesday, 20:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61956, longitude -4.53801, in the PL15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501634089
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 18 October 1980
72 m awayRef 198050B241479
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 April 1979
147 m awayRef 197950B240484
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 July 1986
160 m awayRef 198650B211309
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 September 2010
201 m awayRef 201050BL2L014
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on a C road in Cornwall, 19 July 2014
237 m awayRef 201450BL2L012
Slight
Car crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 23 May 2005
243 m awayRef 200550C21G466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025501634089 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.