Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 15 August 2008 at 07:20 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 07:20 on Friday 15 August 2008. The 37-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2008
- Friday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73437, longitude -3.49979, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mincinglake and Whipton, Exeter, EX4 8AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850DE2D007
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D211130
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 11 July 1987
14 m awayRef 198750D211024
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 14 September 1997
32 m awayRef 199750D213292
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 November 2002
32 m awayRef 200250D216771
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 November 1996
40 m awayRef 199650D213491
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 August 1981
45 m awayRef 198150J660737
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 37, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200850DE2D007 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.