A30 crash in East Devon on 18 December 2011 at 07:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in East Devon at 07:35 on Sunday 18 December 2011. A 41-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79278, longitude -3.21277, in the EX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Honiton St Michael's, East Devon, EX14 1SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150KH2H045
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2000.
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A30 in East Devon, 25 March 2000
4 m awayRef 200050D351710
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in East Devon, 13 October 2005
11 m awayRef 200550D35N325
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A30 in East Devon, 2 December 2008
11 m awayRef 200850KH2H041
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A30 in East Devon, 9 April 2005
11 m awayRef 200550D35E051
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A30 in East Devon, 18 December 2011
11 m awayRef 201150KH2H046
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A30 in East Devon, 18 December 2011
23 m awayRef 201150KH2H047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201150KH2H045 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.