Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX14 on 25 July 1998 at 11:50 involving a Volvo S40
A Volvo S40 crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 11:50 on Saturday 25 July 1998. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82525, longitude -3.10581, 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
- 199850D364222
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
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 199850D364222 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 1998.