Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX5 on 20 May 2012 at 15:14 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 15:14 on Sunday 20 May 2012. An 18-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2012
- Sunday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74218, longitude -3.42458, in the EX5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cranbrook.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KO2L010
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 June 1999.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 18 June 1999
6 m awayRef 199950D213391
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 24 July 1986
35 m awayRef 198650D211350
Slight
Car crash on the B3185 in East Devon, 19 May 1984
46 m awayRef 198450D210795
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3185 in East Devon, 15 December 1981
46 m awayRef 198150J921290
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 February 2005
50 m awayRef 200550D35C291
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 28 March 2002
116 m awayRef 200250D211872
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 201250KO2L010 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.