B3175 crash in East Devon on 26 October 2004 at 17:11 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the B3175 in East Devon at 17:11 on Tuesday 26 October 2004. The 41-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2004
- Tuesday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68357, longitude -3.23827, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidmouth Town, East Devon, EX10 8TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450D33P456
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3175
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 11 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200150D334148
Slight
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 27 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D331356
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 16 December 2022
11 m awayRef 2022501254765
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 15 September 1985
14 m awayRef 198550D331745
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 3 December 1981
20 m awayRef 198150L810943
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 1 August 1988
28 m awayRef 198850D331233
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 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 200450D33P456 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 2004.