Police are appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision on the A380 Torquay Road.
Police were called at around 1.30am today Sunday 26th July to a report of a collision involving a pedestrian on the A380 Torquay Road near to its junction with Aller Brake Road.
On arrival officers found a male pedestrian having sustained fatal injuries, after being involved in a collision with a vehicle which has failed to stop.
At this time the man, believed to be aged in his 30’s has not been identified but officers are carrying out extensive enquires to do so...
A driver sustained life-threatening injuries following a single-vehicle collision on the A377 at Crediton on Saturday night (10 July).
Emergency services were called around 10.50pm after the silver Peugeot 206 Estate left the road near Hookway Cross and struck a granite post and trees.
The 41-year-old male driver from Crediton sustained serious head and chest injuries which were described as life-threatening.
He was taken to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and later transferred to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where he remains in a serious condition.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision in which a motorcyclist died near Okehampton on Tuesday 30 June.
The collision, involving a John Deere tractor with slurry tanker and a blue Suzuki GSXR motorcycle, happened on the A3079 outside Yelland Cottage, Fowley Cross, at 3.10pm.
Officers and an air ambulance attended. The first police officer arriving at the scene carried out emergency treatment on the 45-year-old male motorcyclist, from St Austell, with assistance from members of the public.
Despite their efforts the motorcyclist died at the scene. The man’s...
Police are appealing for witnesses after a child was seriously injured following a collision with a car in Crediton at the weekend.
The collision involving the boy, who was a pedestrian, and a blue Volkswagen Polo, happened at around 4.25pm on Saturday 13 June, on or close to the pedestrian crossing on East Street, near the junction with Church Street.
The boy was taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, with serious leg injuries and minor head injuries.
He has been transferred to Bristol Children’s Hospital where he is described as being in a...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision in Axminster on Friday 12 June in which a man died.
At 2.30pm Dorset Ambulance Control informed police of a collision involving a car and lorry on the A35 at Raymond’s Hill on the Dorset-bound carriageway, close to the Devon and Dorset border.
Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police and Dorset Police attended, along with highways, fire and ambulance crews.
The 78-year-old male driver of the blue Volkswagen Polo, from Poole, Dorset, was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.
A serious collision between an oil tanker and a car closed the A35 near Honiton for several hours today.
Two fire appliances from Honiton, one appliance from Colyton, the Heavy Rescue Vehicle from Middlemoor and the water carrier from Danes Castle were sent to a report of a road traffic collision involving a car and an oil tanker near Home Farm Hotel in Wilmington, near Honiton shortly after 11am.
On arrival crews confirmed that the collision involved a car and a road tanker and that one female person was trapped in the car.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died in a road traffic collision on the old A30 in Exeter on Tuesday 12 May.
Officers along with fire, ambulance and an air ambulance attended the two-vehicle collision that happened shortly before 12.40pm on Tedburn Road, Whitestone, between Bakers Hill and Path Finder Village.
The driver of the silver Citroën Saxo, a 53-year-old man from Exeter, was pronounced dead at the scene. His family have been informed.
There were no other occupants in this car.
The three occupants of the green Vauxhall Astra were taken...
Emegency services have been called following a serious road traffic collision on Tedburn Road, Whitstone (the old A30) after two cars have left the road at around 12.30pm today.
It is believed that there are multiple injuries and the road is currently closed between the garage near Ide and Tedburn Road as police, paramedics, fire and air ambulance attending the scene.
The A30 itself is open.
Police are appealing for witnesses and would like to speak to anyone who was in the area or witnessed the crash to contact them on 101 quoting police log 327 for the 12th May...
