A303 crash in East Devon on 4 May 2025 at 23:30 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on the A303 in East Devon at 23:30 on Sunday 4 May 2025. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2025
- Sunday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86736, longitude -3.10501, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501586053
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2015.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A303 in East Devon, 22 May 2015
11 m awayRef 201550KH2B002
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A303 in East Devon, 30 October 2023
13 m awayRef 2023501369555
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A303 in East Devon, 8 August 2001
16 m awayRef 200150D354898
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A303 in East Devon, 14 December 1996
35 m awayRef 199650D353972
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in East Devon, 12 September 1980
48 m awayRef 198050L780716
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in East Devon, 28 January 1996
75 m awayRef 199650D350285
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025501586053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2025.