A386 crash in West Devon on 1 December 2025 at 17:22 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A386 in West Devon at 17:22 on Monday 1 December 2025. A 56-year-old female pedestrian 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 junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Monday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54795, longitude -4.14763, in the PL19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tavistock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tavistock South West, West Devon, PL19 8DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501735227
- Council area
- West 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
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A386 in West Devon, 28 July 2025
2 m awayRef 2025501621947
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 December 1983
4 m awayRef 198350E612675
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A386 in West Devon, 19 November 2013
5 m awayRef 201350JT2B024
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 July 1987
6 m awayRef 198750E611192
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A386 in West Devon, 26 December 2003
11 m awayRef 200350E61Q572
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 December 1987
11 m awayRef 198750E612357
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025501735227 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2025.