Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX14 on 15 July 2007 at 02:35 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 02:35 on Sunday 15 July 2007. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2007
- Sunday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80077, longitude -3.19283, in the EX14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Honiton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Honiton St Paul's, East Devon, EX14 1RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D35H980
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1999.
Slight
ERF crash on the A30 in East Devon, 18 September 1999
45 m awayRef 199950D355501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 19 December 1981
57 m awayRef 198150L780979
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in East Devon, 29 August 1987
86 m awayRef 198750D351346
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 June 2007
89 m awayRef 200750D35H433
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 27 September 2003
100 m awayRef 200350D35L109
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 6 May 1986
104 m awayRef 198650D350784
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200750D35H980 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.