Floral tributes have been left on a car near where a man was struck and killed by a train.

Emergency services were called just before 3pm on Wednesday following a casualty on the tracks near Exmouth station.

Trains between Exeter and Exmouth were suspended for more than three hours following the incident at Mudbank Lane.

A 46-year-old man was later pronounced dead and his next of kin informed.

Following the tragic death, a blue car parked in Mudbank Lane, has had a single rose and small bunch of wild spring flowers placed on the windscreen.

A British Transport Police spokesperson said immediately after the incident: "We received a report at 2.57pm of a casualty on the tracks near Exmouth station

"Sadly a person had been pronounced dead.”


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