B3137 crash in North Devon on 16 January 2025 at 15:32 involving a Porsche Taycan
A Porsche Taycan and a Vauxhall Grandland were involved in a crash on the B3137 in North Devon at 15:32 on Thursday 16 January 2025. The 36-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Grandland and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Grandland were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Thursday, 15:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Taycan and Vauxhall Grandland
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94782, longitude -3.74817, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501545378
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 6 December 2008
3 m awayRef 200850CS2P001
Serious
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 18 February 2019
4 m awayRef 2019500825071
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 13 August 2011
7 m awayRef 201150CS2P002
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 22 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022501211966
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 9 October 1993
9 m awayRef 199350C241283
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 11 December 2020
10 m awayRef 2020501014395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Taycan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Grandland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 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
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Grandland)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Grandland)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025501545378 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2025.