B3205 crash in the South Hams on 7 August 2025 at 20:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B3205 in the South Hams at 20:00 on Thursday 7 August 2025. The 18-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.36154, longitude -3.56154, in the TQ6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501626129
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3205
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1993.
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 5 December 1993
26 m awayRef 199350F273040
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 8 July 2023
48 m awayRef 2023501327336
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 7 November 1989
49 m awayRef 198950F272215
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 15 April 2025
58 m awayRef 2025501578445
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 28 March 1993
59 m awayRef 199350F270657
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 12 January 2005
154 m awayRef 200550F44A560
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025501626129 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2025.