M5 crash in Mid Devon on 17 September 2005 at 20:01 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Daewoo Matiz were involved in a crash on the M5 in Mid Devon at 20:01 on Saturday 17 September 2005. The 64-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz and a 70-year-old male passenger in the Daewoo Matiz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2005
- Saturday, 20:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91762, longitude -3.35529, in the EX16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canonsleigh, Mid Devon, EX16 7HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550D42M815
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 361
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 24 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 24 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D421755
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 26 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199150D421313
Slight
Scania crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 7 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201050KU2E019
Slight
Honda CRF1000A crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 27 July 2021
11 m awayRef 2021501083454
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 13 May 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501589582
Slight
Hyundai Sonata crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 6 August 2011
15 m awayRef 201150KU2E013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Matiz)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Matiz)
- 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 200550D42M815 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.