A376 crash in East Devon on 3 December 2012 at 10:10 involving an Iveco lorry
An Iveco lorry and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 10:10 on Monday 3 December 2012. The 19-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2012
- Monday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64549, longitude -3.4144, in the EX8 postcode district. 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
- 201250KE3L009
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2003.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A376 in East Devon, 27 June 2003
3 m awayRef 200350D31H413
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A376 in East Devon, 8 January 2007
7 m awayRef 200750D31A237
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A376 in East Devon, 28 October 1993
11 m awayRef 199350D312685
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 27 November 1980
29 m awayRef 198050L760952
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A376 in East Devon, 17 July 2010
41 m awayRef 201050KE3L008
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A376 in East Devon, 20 August 2004
43 m awayRef 200450D31M107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 201250KE3L009 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 2012.