M5 crash in East Devon on 7 October 2012 at 16:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a car were involved in a crash on the M5 in East Devon at 16:30 on Sunday 7 October 2012. The 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 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
- 7 Oct 2012
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72171, longitude -3.46219, in the EX2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Loyes, Exeter, EX3 9BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KE5Q008
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M5 in East Devon, 16 December 2014
12 m awayRef 201450KE5Q010
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M5 in East Devon, 13 September 1995
25 m awayRef 199550D211964
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the M5 in Exeter, 18 June 2024
25 m awayRef 2024501457769
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the M5 in Exeter, 15 May 2025
33 m awayRef 2025501590481
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on the M5 in Exeter, 20 April 2012
46 m awayRef 201250DE2Q012
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the M5 in Exeter, 12 January 2025
52 m awayRef 2025501540680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201250KE5Q008 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.