Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 26 March 2008 at 06:30 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 06:30 on Wednesday 26 March 2008. The 60-year-old male driver of the Rover 75 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72542, longitude -3.5379, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St David's, Exeter, EX1 1GH 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
- 200850D21C795
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 2000.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 14 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200050D213520
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 June 1995
10 m awayRef 199550D211241
Serious
Seat Alhambra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 23 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200050D210852
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 December 1994
14 m awayRef 199450D213085
Serious
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 28 May 2023
15 m awayRef 2023501312489
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 12 May 1983
20 m awayRef 198350D210977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 75)
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 200850D21C795 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 2008.