A35 crash in East Devon on 9 November 2012 at 17:15 involving a Massey Ferguson agricultural vehicle
A Massey Ferguson agricultural vehicle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A35 in East Devon at 17:15 on Friday 9 November 2012. The 68-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, a 77-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and a 12-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2012
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Massey Ferguson and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8045, longitude -3.17591, in the EX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Honiton St Paul's, East Devon, EX14 4PW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KH2H025
- 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
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 27 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198850D351394
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 6 November 1989
52 m awayRef 198950D351969
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 14 December 1989
76 m awayRef 198950D352226
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 8 June 2002
86 m awayRef 200250D353449
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 7 June 1986
92 m awayRef 198650D351000
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 14 September 1989
138 m awayRef 198950D351621
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Massey Ferguson
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201250KH2H025 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.