Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX18 on 13 September 2013 at 09:33 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 09:33 on Friday 13 September 2013. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2013
- Friday, 09:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88592, longitude -3.81369, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350KC5F004
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 60 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
- Raining, 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, 356 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3042 in Mid Devon, 28 January 1997
356 m awayRef 199750C250294
Serious
Car crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 29 August 1984
443 m awayRef 198450C250409
Serious
Car crash on the B3042 in North Devon, 3 October 1980
445 m awayRef 198050H570460
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 22 May 2011
453 m awayRef 201150KC5F002
Serious
Car crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 8 June 1985
463 m awayRef 198550C250193
Slight
Morris Ital crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 17 August 1996
478 m awayRef 199650D432552
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201350KC5F004 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.