A373 crash in East Devon on 5 June 2025 at 15:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Volkswagen Caddy van were involved in a crash on the A373 in East Devon at 15:20 on Thursday 5 June 2025. The 63-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and the 71-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddy van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81611, longitude -3.25247, 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
- 2025501599596
- 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
- 373
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A373 in East Devon, 19 August 1999
4 m awayRef 199950D354841
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A373 in East Devon, 23 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025501581242
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A373 in East Devon, 11 February 2024
16 m awayRef 2024501408589
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the A373 in East Devon, 30 September 2019
85 m awayRef 2019500889124
Serious
Car crash on the A373 in East Devon, 14 April 1989
176 m awayRef 198950D350571
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A373 in East Devon, 1 August 2018
187 m awayRef 2018500320799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Caddy)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025501599596 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.