A376 crash in East Devon on 14 October 2011 at 16:37 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 16:37 on Friday 14 October 2011. The 36-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 62-year-old female driver of the Toyota Aygo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2011
- Friday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63792, longitude -3.41067, in the EX8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodbury & Lympstone, East Devon, EX8 3NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150KE2B011
- 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
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2015.
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A376 in East Devon, 6 February 2015
1 m awayRef 201550KE2B003
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A376 in East Devon, 28 May 2024
2 m awayRef 2024501448931
Slight
Audi S3 crash on the A376 in East Devon, 8 March 2019
3 m awayRef 2019500826685
Slight
Volvo XC70 crash on the A376 in East Devon, 24 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025501687795
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A376 in East Devon, 25 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200850KE2B005
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 9 February 1981
4 m awayRef 198150L750082
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, 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 201150KE2B011 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 2011.