Serious unclassified road crash in West Devon EX20 on 24 September 2025 at 21:29 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in West Devon at 21:29 on Wednesday 24 September 2025. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 21:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66486, longitude -4.09214, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501647342
- Council area
- West 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 235 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2021.
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 17 January 2021
235 m awayRef 2021501017520
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 June 2024
405 m awayRef 2024501452603
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 March 2000
442 m awayRef 200050C531210
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 10 January 1981
461 m awayRef 198150H260014
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 April 1992
476 m awayRef 199250C530315
Serious
MG ZR crash on the A386 in West Devon, 28 April 2009
484 m awayRef 200950JO3E003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2025501647342 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2025.