Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX3 on 31 March 2025 at 18:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 18:20 on Monday 31 March 2025. The 68-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Monday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69416, longitude -3.471, in the EX3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Topsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Topsham, Exeter, EX2 7DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501571871
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 226 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 1994.
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the M5 in Exeter, 24 September 1994
226 m awayRef 199450D212328
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 March 2000
234 m awayRef 200050D311373
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M5 in Exeter, 15 November 2018
243 m awayRef 2018500805836
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the M5 in Exeter, 15 February 2009
252 m awayRef 200950DE2W003
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the M5 in Exeter, 10 October 1994
253 m awayRef 199450D212460
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M5 in Exeter, 8 October 2017
262 m awayRef 2017500231537
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 68, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025501571871 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2025.