A376 crash in East Devon on 15 September 1997 at 12:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 12:15 on Monday 15 September 1997. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1997
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66927, longitude -3.43907, in the EX3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750D313492
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A376 in Exeter, 20 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200450D21M112
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 25 October 1980
20 m awayRef 198050L760847
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 7 June 1981
28 m awayRef 198150L750430
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 10 January 1986
28 m awayRef 198650D310234
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A376 in East Devon, 3 November 1993
30 m awayRef 199350D312769
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 7 April 2012
31 m awayRef 201250KE3M006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199750D313492 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 1997.