Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 4 October 2008 at 16:15 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 16:15 on Saturday 4 October 2008. A 38-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70872, longitude -3.53565, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Exeter, EX2 9BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850DE2R026
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2012.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 16 January 2012
4 m awayRef 201250DE2R004
Serious
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14 m awayRef 200050D216117
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 16 April 1987
22 m awayRef 198750D210514
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 17 June 1987
22 m awayRef 198750D210899
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 21 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200550D21J105
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 23 April 1989
22 m awayRef 198950D210631
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 200850DE2R026 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.