Serious B3227 crash in North Devon on 6 November 2025 at 08:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 08:30 on Thursday 6 November 2025. The 50-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99655, longitude -3.98976, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501664407
- Council area
- North 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
- 3227
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 3 September 2012
16 m awayRef 201250CS2H006
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 14 December 2006
16 m awayRef 200650C21P955
Serious
Car crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 26 October 1989
27 m awayRef 198950C241233
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 19 January 2000
27 m awayRef 200050C240287
Slight
Car crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 12 June 1989
70 m awayRef 198950C240591
Slight
Car crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 1 January 2018
98 m awayRef 2018500261077
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025501664407 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2025.