A30 crash in Cornwall on 15 December 2025 at 17:00 involving a Citroen
A Citroen, a Volkswagen Golf and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall at 17:00 on Monday 15 December 2025. A 39-year-old female passenger in the Citroen and the 66-year-old male driver of the Citroen were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.23669, longitude -5.25043, in the TR15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pool & Tehidy, Cornwall, TR15 3LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501683410
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1996.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 29 March 1996
44 m awayRef 199650A220850
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 25 April 2000
59 m awayRef 200050A221295
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 9 August 1998
61 m awayRef 199850A222924
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 5 February 1999
93 m awayRef 199950A220452
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 3 June 2000
110 m awayRef 200050A221934
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A30 in Cornwall, 15 September 1992
110 m awayRef 199250A221438
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 3: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen)
- 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 2025501683410 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.