A386 crash in West Devon on 16 October 2025 at 16:00 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 16:00 on Thursday 16 October 2025. The 53-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Defender was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70494, longitude -4.06371, in the EX20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridestowe, West Devon, EX20 4LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501655346
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 30
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1999.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A30 in West Devon, 10 August 1999
2 m awayRef 199950E611834
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A30 in West Devon, 8 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022501197951
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A30 in West Devon, 28 June 2024
7 m awayRef 2024501465658
Fatal
Nissan Almera crash on the A30 in West Devon, 17 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200750C51A556
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A30 in West Devon, 19 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199850C532777
Slight
HGV crash on the A386 in West Devon, 31 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200550C51B044
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025501655346 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.