C road crash in West Devon EX20 on 6 November 2001 at 18:05 involving a Toyota Landcruiser
A Toyota Landcruiser and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 18:05 on Tuesday 6 November 2001. The 65-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2001
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Landcruiser and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6596, longitude -4.1893, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150C537002
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 163 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in West Devon, 31 August 1992
163 m awayRef 199250C530772
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 17 June 1987
210 m awayRef 198750C532598
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 21 November 1985
211 m awayRef 198550C530545
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 9 March 2005
231 m awayRef 200550C51D153
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in West Devon, 28 May 1991
242 m awayRef 199150C530452
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in West Devon, 1 March 1996
250 m awayRef 199650C530668
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 400 Series)
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 200150C537002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2001.