Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 15 December 2025 at 17:07 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 17:07 on Monday 15 December 2025. The 84-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Monday, 17:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08465, longitude -4.02517, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501683487
- Council area
- North 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 January 2016
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Serious
Toyota Starlet crash on a C road in North Devon, 24 February 1992
73 m awayRef 199250C210177
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in North Devon, 3 May 1990
155 m awayRef 199050C210402
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 3 December 2004
175 m awayRef 200450C21R445
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 6 November 1999
189 m awayRef 199950C216445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- 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 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025501683487 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.