Serious A30 crash in Cornwall on 6 September 2025 at 20:47 involving a Yamaha R motorcycle
A Yamaha R motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 20:47 on Saturday 6 September 2025. The 17-year-old male rider of the Yamaha R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 20:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha R and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.16586, longitude -5.45423, in the TR27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Rock, Marazion & St Erth, Cornwall, TR27 6LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501638294
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2020.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 18 August 2020
8 m awayRef 2020500974321
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 7 August 2004
30 m awayRef 200450A33K765
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 29 September 1989
31 m awayRef 198950A321588
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 29 January 2019
59 m awayRef 2019500822087
Serious
Peugeot 305 crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 17 March 1990
69 m awayRef 199050A330382
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 2 July 1979
77 m awayRef 197950A031102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025501638294 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.