A35 crash in East Devon on 17 April 2006 at 19:53 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 and a car were involved in a crash on the A35 in East Devon at 19:53 on Monday 17 April 2006. A female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2006
- Monday, 19:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota MR2 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76981, longitude -3.00414, in the EX13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Axminster, East Devon, EX13 5QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650D36E374
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A35 in East Devon, 4 December 2023
8 m awayRef 2023501382524
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199750D361315
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A35 in East Devon, 5 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201050KA2B001
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A35 in East Devon, 7 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200950KA2B008
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 December 2022
11 m awayRef 2022501280769
Fatal
Citroen C3 crash on the A35 in East Devon, 20 July 2023
13 m awayRef 2023501331592
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200650D36E374 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 2006.