Serious unclassified road crash in West Devon PL16 on 6 July 2025 at 11:00 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Devon at 11:00 on Sunday 6 July 2025. An 81-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Mokka was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver of the BMW 1 Series and the 58-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Mokka were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jul 2025
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6074, longitude -4.21555, in the PL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501612266
- Council area
- West 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in West Devon, 25 January 2002
9 m awayRef 200250E610199
Slight
Triumph crash on a C road in West Devon, 27 June 2002
18 m awayRef 200250E611521
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in West Devon, 27 July 1994
18 m awayRef 199450E611948
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 1 May 2022
21 m awayRef 2022501179618
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 7 January 2007
27 m awayRef 200750E61A148
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 24 September 1982
27 m awayRef 198250G530882
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025501612266 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2025.