A373 crash in East Devon on 12 December 2025 at 17:50 involving a Daihatsu Sirion
A Daihatsu Sirion and a Peugeot Boxer van were involved in a crash on the A373 in East Devon at 17:50 on Friday 12 December 2025. The 83-year-old female driver of the Daihatsu Sirion was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daihatsu Sirion and Peugeot Boxer
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82066, longitude -3.27069, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501684359
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 20 August 1983
20 m awayRef 198350D351537
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A373 in East Devon, 20 February 2002
64 m awayRef 200250D351018
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A373 in East Devon, 25 November 1997
64 m awayRef 199750D424378
Serious
Car crash on the A373 in East Devon, 3 November 1984
88 m awayRef 198450D351960
Fatal
Austin Montego crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 23 October 1999
143 m awayRef 199950D426145
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A373 in East Devon, 6 August 2015
204 m awayRef 201550KH3D001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu Sirion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Boxer
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daihatsu Sirion)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2025501684359 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.