Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX8 on 8 May 2009 at 21:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 21:30 on Friday 8 May 2009. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2009
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64187, longitude -3.38666, in the EX8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exmouth Brixington, East Devon, EX8 4LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950KE2A004
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2001.
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 1 January 1994
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200950KE2A004 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 2009.