Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX22 on 6 February 2025 at 11:02 involving a Peugeot Expert van
A Peugeot Expert van and a Seat Ateca were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 11:02 on Thursday 6 February 2025. The 73-year-old male driver of the Seat Ateca was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Thursday, 11:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and Seat Ateca
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88543, longitude -4.4039, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501551291
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- 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 4 October 2025.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 4 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025501661574
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 26 May 2005
279 m awayRef 200550C42G670
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 9 July 1979
294 m awayRef 197950H610271
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 7 October 2009
514 m awayRef 200950CH2A002
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 24 June 2000
558 m awayRef 200050C413254
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 5 July 2016
643 m awayRef 2016500089741
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Seat Ateca
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ateca)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025501551291 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2025.