Serious unclassified road crash in East Devon EX5 on 17 June 2025 at 12:47 involving a Ford Ranger van
A Ford Ranger van crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 12:47 on Tuesday 17 June 2025. The 76-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Ranger
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73552, longitude -3.35739, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501604098
- Council area
- East Devon
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Very 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, 212 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 31 October 2006
212 m awayRef 200650D21O335
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 19 June 1999
331 m awayRef 199950D213618
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in East Devon, 10 June 1994
370 m awayRef 199450D211466
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 5 June 1998
443 m awayRef 199850D353174
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 12 April 1981
534 m awayRef 198150J920357
Slight
Volkswagen Motor Caravan crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 29 April 1995
543 m awayRef 199550D210958
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ranger
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 76, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Ranger)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025501604098 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.