Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman and child were seriously injured following a road traffic collision in Torquay at the weekend.
The collision happened shortly before 1.20pm on Sunday 22 November 2015 near the junction of Torbay Road and Sea Way Lane.
A group of five pedestrians, two adults and three children, were walking along Torbay Road when a silver Daihatsu Sirion mounted the pavement and collided with a six-year-old girl and her 35-year-old mother.
The silver Daihatsu, heading in the Paignton direction, also collided with a Ford Focus that was...
Investigative work is due to continue today at the scene of a light aircraft crash near the village of Churchinford in Somerset.
The aircraft was travelling towards Dunkeswell Aerodrome in east Devon when it came down.
The six-seater plane crashed into a field near Buttles Lane at just before 11.44am yesterday morning.
Four people who were on board the plane were pronounced dead at the scene.
Although formal identification has not yet taken place, we believe the four people are from the same family – and were a 56-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman, a 23-year...
Police are appealing for information to a collision on the A30 at Okehampton yesterday [12 November] in which two elderly people were seriously injured.
Emergency services were called around 6.05pm after the collision between and a DAF large goods vehicle and a Volvo S80 on the westbound carriageway at Sourton.
The occupants of the Volvo, an 84-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman from Launceston, were seriously injured and were taken to Derriford Hospital where they remain in a serious but stable condition.
The HGV driver, a 51-year-old driver from Sheffield, was...
Police are appealing for witnesses following an injury road traffic collision in Ottery St Mary.
The collision occurred at around 5.28pm on Thursday 5th November, in Strawberry Lane Ottery St Mary between a dark coloured Audi A3 vehicle and a female approved marshal who was controlling traffic at the Tar Barrel event.
An altercation allegedly occurred between the driver of the Audi vehicle and the marshal, resulting in the driver accelerating through the road closure.
On doing so the female marshal was dragged along by the vehicle for a few metres before falling...
The M5 was closed for several hours today (23 October) southbound between J25, A358 (Taunton) and J26, A38 (Wellington) due to an accident involving two lorries.
The log from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue is as follows:
Two fire appliances and a rescue tender from Taunton, together with the heavy rescue vehicle and support vehicle from Middlemoor, were mobilised following a call from the Highways Agency requesting our attendance to a 2 vehicle RTC, person trapped, involving 2 lorries.
On arrival crews confirmed this RTC involved 2 HGV lorries, where one had...
The M5 is closed and there is queuing traffic southbound between J25, A358 (Taunton) and J26, A38 (Wellington).
Police say the closure is due to an accident involving two lorries.
A diversion is in operation - traffic is to follow the solid black diamond symbol from J25 onto the A358 Southbound toward the A303 then west on the A303 to rejoin the M5 at J29.
The log from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue is as follows:
Two fire appliances and a rescue tender from Taunton, together with the heavy rescue vehicle and support vehicle from Middlemoor, were...
A driver who died in a collision on the A386 near Lydford on Sunday 23 August, has been named as 34-year-old Holly Beddoes.
Holly, from Okehampton, sustained fatal injuries when her Renault Clio was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Astra around 7.50pm. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her family has provided the following tribute:
“Our dearest darling Holly was taken from us so suddenly. There are no words to describe the loss we feel.
She was a wonderful girl who was clever, artistic and funny.
Emergency services were called to a collision on Telegraph Hill this morning (31 August).
A spokesperson for Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service said: “Fire crews from Topsham, Middlemoor and Danes Castle were mobilised to reports of a collision involving one vehicle on the A380 at around 8.30am.
“Crews found one person trapped within the vehicle and used hydraulic cutting equipment to release.
“The casualty was left in the care of the Ambulance service.”
The road was closed, Torquay-bound, for around 30 minutes, but was reopened just after 9am....
A woman has died following a collision near Okehampton at the weekend.
Police received reports of collision between a Vauxhall Astra and a Renault Clio at around 7.50pm on Sunday 23rd August on the A386 Lydford and Mary Tavy, near Okehampton.
A police spokesman said: "It appears that the Clio was travelling southbound and the Vauxhall northbound when the collision took place. The 34-year old female driver of the blue Renault Clio hatchback was pronounced dead at the scene and two passengers from the car were taken to Derriford Hospital.
