B3179 crash in East Devon on 17 June 2025 at 16:55 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 and a Volkswagen Fox were involved in a crash on the B3179 in East Devon at 16:55 on Tuesday 17 June 2025. The 53-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 308 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 308 and Volkswagen Fox
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67426, longitude -3.40411, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501614202
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 June 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 June 1985
3 m awayRef 198550D310983
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 December 1985
3 m awayRef 198550D312388
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 15 July 2019
6 m awayRef 2019500864137
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 24 April 1982
7 m awayRef 198250D310629
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 5 July 2017
11 m awayRef 2017500202027
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 25 July 2004
11 m awayRef 200450D21J977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Fox
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025501614202 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.