Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX14 on 26 June 2025 at 12:55 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Volkswagen Caddymaxi van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 12:55 on Thursday 26 June 2025. The 50-year-old male driver of the DAF Trucks lorry and the 26-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddymaxi van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Volkswagen Caddymaxi
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84516, longitude -3.22593, 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
- 2025501608228
- 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
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 11 November 1992.
Fatal
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in East Devon, 11 November 1992
5 m awayRef 199250D351962
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 18 April 1987
8 m awayRef 198750D350510
Fatal
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 31 May 2002
8 m awayRef 200250D353249
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 7 May 1985
16 m awayRef 198550D350746
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 21 July 1979
19 m awayRef 197950L780504
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 January 2007
24 m awayRef 200750D35A936
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddymaxi
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Caddymaxi)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025501608228 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.