B3179 crash in East Devon on 20 September 2025 at 15:15 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the B3179 in East Devon at 15:15 on Saturday 20 September 2025. The 56-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van and the 67-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68071, longitude -3.41162, 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
- 2025501644348
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 with 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2008.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 14 March 2008
8 m awayRef 200850D31C359
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 18 December 2005
16 m awayRef 200550D31Q779
Serious
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 20 March 1984
22 m awayRef 198450D310482
Slight
Yamaha YZF 1000 R crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 30 March 2007
22 m awayRef 200750D31D455
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 23 November 1989
39 m awayRef 198950D312089
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 4 March 1995
50 m awayRef 199550D310543
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025501644348 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.