A303 crash in East Devon on 28 October 2009 at 10:50 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A303 in East Devon at 10:50 on Wednesday 28 October 2009. The 69-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai and a 50-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2009
- Wednesday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88769, longitude -3.06766, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950KH2A016
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 June 1989.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A303 in East Devon, 1 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D350817
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 31 December 1983
20 m awayRef 198350D352488
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 5 July 1986
20 m awayRef 198650D351180
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A303 in East Devon, 28 October 1999
51 m awayRef 199950D356308
Slight
Honda VFR800F crash on the A303 in East Devon, 25 July 2012
71 m awayRef 201250KH2A005
Serious
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 7 January 1984
73 m awayRef 198450D350013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 200950KH2A016 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.