Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 23 May 2002 at 23:00 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 23:00 on Thursday 23 May 2002. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2002
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97622, longitude -3.41156, in the EX16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250D413202
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 854 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 1998.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 6 September 1998
854 m awayRef 199850D415447
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Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 22 May 1999
1.0 km awayRef 199950D412784
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 22 February 1987
1.1 km awayRef 198750D410228
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 March 1996
1.3 km awayRef 199650D360655
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Ford Mondeo crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 1 February 1997
1.3 km awayRef 199750D210320
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 26 May 1982
1.3 km awayRef 198250D410893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
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 200250D413202 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2002.