Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 25 December 2000 at 10:04 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Rover Metro were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 10:04 on Monday 25 December 2000. The 53-year-old male driver of the Rover Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2000
- Monday, 10:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69541, longitude -3.50067, in the EX2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D217148
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2011.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A379 in Exeter, 30 August 2011
6 m awayRef 201150DE2T017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Exeter, 28 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198050J670297
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A379 in Exeter, 15 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199650D211383
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Exeter, 3 January 1980
10 m awayRef 198050J670009
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A379 in East Devon, 26 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200350D21M892
Fatal
Car crash on the A379 in Exeter, 16 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D211565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Metro)
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 200050D217148 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 2000.