Serious unclassified road crash in Cornwall PL30 on 27 August 2025 at 18:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall at 18:40 on Wednesday 27 August 2025. The 17-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Aug 2025
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53683, longitude -4.70751, in the PL30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501634114
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 165 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2023.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 October 2023
165 m awayRef 2023501363930
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 5 June 2022
256 m awayRef 2022501188298
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 11 June 1989
467 m awayRef 198950B310908
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 30 October 1997
533 m awayRef 199750B324137
Slight
Kawasaki AR125 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 2 January 1996
601 m awayRef 199650B310025
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Cornwall, 17 March 2012
616 m awayRef 201250BB2A001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025501634114 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.