A377 crash in Mid Devon on 26 December 2013 at 13:08 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A377 in Mid Devon at 13:08 on Thursday 26 December 2013. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 13:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77626, longitude -3.60922, 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
- 201350KC2K005
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 13 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024501410332
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 14 August 1989
13 m awayRef 198950D431396
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 11 January 2012
24 m awayRef 201250KC2K001
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A377 in Exeter, 18 May 2006
45 m awayRef 200650D43F832
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 1 December 1992
49 m awayRef 199250D432143
Fatal
Ford Cortina crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 12 May 1990
51 m awayRef 199050D430862
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 201350KC2K005 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 2013.