B3181 crash in Exeter on 14 March 2014 at 13:25 involving a Lexus IS250
A Lexus IS250 and a Volkswagen Caddy van were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Exeter at 13:25 on Friday 14 March 2014. The 55-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddy van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 2014
- Friday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus IS250 and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72941, longitude -3.48263, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pinhoe, Exeter, EX4 8EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450DE2H005
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 24 March 1987
26 m awayRef 198750D210396
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 30 May 2003
28 m awayRef 200350D21G784
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 10 February 1996
55 m awayRef 199650D210418
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 18 November 1992
55 m awayRef 199250D212011
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 25 February 1980
72 m awayRef 198050J670191
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 10 July 2010
74 m awayRef 201050DE2H015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus IS250
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 201450DE2H005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2014.