Serious A379 crash in Exeter on 31 October 2011 at 19:19 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A379 in Exeter at 19:19 on Monday 31 October 2011. The 39-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Oct 2011
- Monday, 19:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche 911 and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70075, longitude -3.49309, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Topsham, Exeter, EX2 7BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150DE2V024
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Exeter, 13 May 2014
3 m awayRef 201450DE2V004
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A379 in Exeter, 1 March 2011
4 m awayRef 201150DE2V007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Exeter, 5 September 1987
4 m awayRef 198750D211380
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A379 in Exeter, 6 August 2014
4 m awayRef 201450DE2V010
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 17 November 2000
4 m awayRef 200050D216289
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 December 2010
4 m awayRef 201050DE2V021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Aygo)
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 201150DE2V024 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.