Serious B3174 crash in East Devon on 9 October 2025 at 12:54 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on the B3174 in East Devon at 12:54 on Thursday 9 October 2025. The 56-year-old female driver of the Ford Kuga was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 12:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75022, longitude -3.31613, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501657488
- 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
- 3174
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2013.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 17 October 2013
4 m awayRef 201350KO2W011
Slight
Car crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 8 March 1986
9 m awayRef 198650D350387
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 7 May 1995
11 m awayRef 199550D351053
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 8 January 2001
14 m awayRef 200150D350458
Serious
Saab 900 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 14 February 1990
39 m awayRef 199050D350313
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 23 February 1999
157 m awayRef 199950D351029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Kuga)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025501657488 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.