B3315 crash in Cornwall on 24 December 2025 at 13:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the B3315 in Cornwall at 13:35 on Wednesday 24 December 2025. The 60-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 48-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.096, longitude -5.55425, in the TR18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mousehole, Newlyn & St Buryan, Cornwall, TR18 5ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501688117
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3315
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1997.
Slight
Rover crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 22 May 1997
19 m awayRef 199750A311622
Slight
Van crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 19 September 1983
36 m awayRef 198350A311802
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 28 January 1992
77 m awayRef 199250A310123
Slight
Car crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 12 November 1982
77 m awayRef 198250A312309
Serious
Car crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 15 June 1979
79 m awayRef 197950A030965
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B3315 in Cornwall, 29 February 2020
83 m awayRef 2020500938602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2025501688117 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.