Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ8 on 22 August 2025 at 14:20 involving a Hyundai ix35
A Hyundai ix35 crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 14:20 on Friday 22 August 2025. A 13-year-old male passenger and the 51-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2025
- Friday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai ix35
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22802, longitude -3.78398, in the TQ8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Salcombe.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501632158
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- 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, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1995.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 1 July 1995
60 m awayRef 199550F541219
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 5 June 1982
103 m awayRef 198250G480445
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 17 July 1988
106 m awayRef 198850F541326
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 10 April 1982
171 m awayRef 198250G480287
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 21 August 1981
171 m awayRef 198150G480703
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 18 January 1988
200 m awayRef 198850F540106
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai ix35
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai ix35)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai ix35)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025501632158 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.