Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX5 on 26 August 2011 at 11:27 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 11:27 on Friday 26 August 2011. A female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2011
- Friday, 11:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82752, longitude -3.42115, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150KU2K002
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 December 1983.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 14 December 1983
8 m awayRef 198350D422387
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 5 June 1984
30 m awayRef 198450D420902
Serious
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 13 August 2006
110 m awayRef 200650D42J924
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 13 May 1997
113 m awayRef 199750D421842
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 25 June 1984
115 m awayRef 198450D421048
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 24 February 1986
116 m awayRef 198650D420325
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 201150KU2K002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2011.