Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 22 March 2005 at 23:14 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 23:14 on Tuesday 22 March 2005. All four casualties were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Mar 2005
- Tuesday, 23:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92714, longitude -3.40153, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550D41D461
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2015.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 8 May 2015
25 m awayRef 201550KU2W001
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 21 August 1997
164 m awayRef 199750D423047
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 6 May 1984
177 m awayRef 198450D410826
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 25 May 2017
349 m awayRef 2017500189179
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 21 December 2009
366 m awayRef 200950KU2F019
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B3136 in Somerset, 2 June 1999
421 m awayRef 1999520065242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200550D41D461 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 2005.