A377 crash in Exeter on 16 July 1999 at 22:08 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A377 in Exeter at 22:08 on Friday 16 July 1999. The 31-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 1999
- Friday, 22:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71671, longitude -3.5362, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199950D214020
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1996.
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A377 in Exeter, 30 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199650D213453
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A377 in Exeter, 26 January 2011
1 m awayRef 201150DE2R005
Slight
Alfa Romeo 147 crash on the A377 in Exeter, 25 February 2011
4 m awayRef 201150DE2R007
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A377 in Exeter, 29 November 2013
5 m awayRef 201350DE2R029
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in Exeter, 6 August 2015
6 m awayRef 201550DE2R017
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A377 in Exeter, 9 April 2023
7 m awayRef 2023501294959
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199950D214020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1999.