Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX13 on 3 January 2001 at 10:55 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Volvo V70 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 10:55 on Wednesday 3 January 2001. An 80-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Ford Sierra and the 73-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2001
- Wednesday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Volvo V70
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82604, longitude -2.97056, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150D360049
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 20 July 1980
89 m awayRef 198050L790532
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 15 June 1983
98 m awayRef 198350D361061
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 6 August 1983
100 m awayRef 198350D361463
Serious
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 4 July 1989
108 m awayRef 198950D361076
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 11 July 1981
110 m awayRef 198150L790493
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A358 in East Devon, 11 November 1990
110 m awayRef 199050D362290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 200150D360049 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 2001.