Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 21 July 2025 at 13:15 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 13:15 on Monday 21 July 2025. The 71-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Monday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90462, longitude -3.23563, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501618946
- Council area
- Mid 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 96 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 May 1990.
Serious
Kawasaki EX305 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 17 May 1990
96 m awayRef 199050D420915
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 6 January 1984
119 m awayRef 198450D420035
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 13 October 1987
228 m awayRef 198750D421654
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 15 December 1980
252 m awayRef 198050L911007
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 22 April 2011
280 m awayRef 201150KU2B003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 12 December 1997
491 m awayRef 199750D424664
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 71, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025501618946 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2025.