A377 crash in Exeter on 7 August 2014 at 10:02 involving a Mazda MX-5
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 10:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71357, longitude -3.53672, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Exeter, EX2 9BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450DE2M018
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A377 in Exeter, 3 December 1997
4 m awayRef 199750D214522
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 7 July 1981
4 m awayRef 198150J650684
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 27 April 1984
4 m awayRef 198450D210645
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in Exeter, 13 October 1983
4 m awayRef 198350D212036
Slight
Lorry crash on the A377 in Exeter, 1 December 1986
4 m awayRef 198650D212230
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 July 2001
4 m awayRef 200150D214094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-5)
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 201450DE2M018 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.