A35 crash in East Devon on 20 September 1996 at 20:10 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A35 in East Devon at 20:10 on Friday 20 September 1996. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 1996
- Friday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77041, longitude -3.00468, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199650D362935
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 358
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 1 November 1996.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 1 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199650D363441
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199450D362092
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 26 January 2001
50 m awayRef 200150D360597
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 6 December 2011
53 m awayRef 201150KA2B003
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 21 July 1993
54 m awayRef 199350D361847
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A35 in East Devon, 13 March 2002
54 m awayRef 200250D361706
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199650D362935 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 1996.