A396 crash in East Devon on 5 February 2009 at 12:52 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the A396 in East Devon at 12:52 on Thursday 5 February 2009. The 49-year-old male driver of the car was 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
- 5 Feb 2009
- Thursday, 12:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78405, longitude -3.49684, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950KO2P002
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 396
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2000.
Slight
Van crash on the A379 in East Devon, 29 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200050D211388
Slight
Volkswagen Eos crash on the A396 in East Devon, 21 March 2011
8 m awayRef 201150KO2P001
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A396 in East Devon, 23 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200950KO2P004
Serious
Van crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 18 December 1981
20 m awayRef 198150J921278
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A396 in East Devon, 13 May 2011
23 m awayRef 201150KO2P003
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A396 in East Devon, 1 August 2017
51 m awayRef 2017500211297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200950KO2P002 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.