A375 crash in East Devon on 14 October 2007 at 18:18 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza crashed on the A375 in East Devon at 18:18 on Sunday 14 October 2007. The 38-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2007
- Sunday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69663, longitude -3.2362, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidmouth Sidford, East Devon, EX10 9TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D33Q036
- 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
- 375
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 18 April 1979
14 m awayRef 197950L810253
Slight
Car crash on the A375 in East Devon, 12 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200450D33G128
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A375 in East Devon, 18 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199750D332500
Slight
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 13 March 1985
36 m awayRef 198550D330394
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 5 May 1995
36 m awayRef 199550D331009
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 29 April 2008
41 m awayRef 200850KS2G001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- 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 200750D33Q036 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 2007.