Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 5 May 2011 at 17:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 17:10 on Thursday 5 May 2011. The 26-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 2011
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7139, longitude -3.55931, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alphington, Exeter, EX2 9PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150DE2L005
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 February 1987.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 February 1987
32 m awayRef 198750D210207
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 15 June 2004
53 m awayRef 200450D21H915
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 November 1994
64 m awayRef 199450D212991
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 28 September 2023
118 m awayRef 2023501371580
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 February 1999
142 m awayRef 199950D210720
Slight
Vanden Plas 1500 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 19 June 1990
159 m awayRef 199050D211156
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201150DE2L005 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 2011.