A387 crash in Cornwall on 10 September 2025 at 16:48 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the A387 in Cornwall at 16:48 on Wednesday 10 September 2025. The 54-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van and the 22-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38375, longitude -4.4629, in the PL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501639959
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 387
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3254
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 17 March 2005
7 m awayRef 200550B52D207
Slight
Car crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 26 July 1987
17 m awayRef 198750B520934
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 15 July 2006
19 m awayRef 200650B52I511
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 1 April 2016
24 m awayRef 201650BE2I001
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 27 July 2000
29 m awayRef 200050B522699
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 9 September 2023
32 m awayRef 2023501350572
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025501639959 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.