Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX14 on 7 August 2025 at 22:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 22:15 on Thursday 7 August 2025. The 17-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra, the 63-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78988, longitude -3.22393, 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
- 2025501626141
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2004.
Slight
Peugeot Trekker crash on the A30 in East Devon, 7 December 2004
17 m awayRef 200450D35R570
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 1 March 1987
28 m awayRef 198750D350252
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 9 January 1981
45 m awayRef 198150L780015
Serious
MAN crash on the A30 in East Devon, 19 September 2000
56 m awayRef 200050D354931
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 3 June 1979
67 m awayRef 197950L780382
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in East Devon, 16 January 1998
67 m awayRef 199850D350290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025501626141 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.