A303 crash in East Devon on 19 November 1995 at 19:05 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego crashed on the A303 in East Devon at 19:05 on Sunday 19 November 1995. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 1995
- Sunday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86781, longitude -3.10411, 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
- 199550D352501
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A303 in East Devon, 28 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199650D350285
Serious
Fiat Seicento crash on the A303 in East Devon, 31 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200650D35Q446
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 9 December 1983
20 m awayRef 198350D352349
Slight
Kawasaki ZR1200 crash on the A303 in East Devon, 15 August 2015
22 m awayRef 201550KH2B005
Fatal
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 14 December 1979
30 m awayRef 197950L780911
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in East Devon, 12 September 1980
36 m awayRef 198050L780716
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Montego)
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 199550D352501 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 1995.