A30 crash in West Devon on 26 September 2011 at 08:50 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 08:50 on Monday 26 September 2011. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2011
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71877, longitude -3.83789, in the EX6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150JO2N019
- Council area
- West 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 2019.
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A30 in West Devon, 12 July 2019
21 m awayRef 2019500881174
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A30 in West Devon, 19 March 2007
152 m awayRef 200750C51D185
Fatal
Kia Ceed crash on the A30 in West Devon, 15 October 2024
175 m awayRef 2024501504164
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A30 in West Devon, 3 December 2014
187 m awayRef 201450JO2N010
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A30 in West Devon, 2 May 2024
194 m awayRef 2024501438129
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A30 in West Devon, 22 November 2019
219 m awayRef 2019500912442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201150JO2N019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2011.