Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX1 on 29 December 2007 at 03:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Exeter at 03:25 on Saturday 29 December 2007. The 20-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 03:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72117, longitude -3.50461, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Priory, Exeter, EX2 5HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D21Q050
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2008.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3183 in Exeter, 16 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200850D21D212
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 27 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200550D21G237
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200650D21M895
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 4 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200750D21B235
Slight
Pioneer crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200850D21B134
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200750D21M390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 200750D21Q050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2007.