A377 crash in Exeter on 12 December 2025 at 00:55 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
Four vehicles, including a Volkswagen Tiguan and a Honda Civic, were involved in a crash on the A377 in Exeter at 00:55 on Friday 12 December 2025. The 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Tiguan was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Friday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volkswagen Tiguan and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72869, longitude -3.54232, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St David's, Exeter, EX4 4FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501681839
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A377 in Exeter, 14 September 1995
9 m awayRef 199550D212005
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A377 in Exeter, 5 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199450D212975
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 May 2007
30 m awayRef 200750D21E678
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 9 April 1988
33 m awayRef 198850D210538
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 14 May 1982
36 m awayRef 198250D210733
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A377 in Exeter, 25 November 2013
44 m awayRef 201350DE2I062
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: Renault Captur
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 4: KTM 390 Duke
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 373 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025501681839 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2025.