C road crash in North Devon EX37 on 12 April 2015 at 16:10 involving a Mercedes Sprinter
A bicycle and a Mercedes Sprinter were involved in a crash on a C road in North Devon at 16:10 on Sunday 12 April 2015. The 39-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99284, longitude -4.00971, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CS2H001
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 22 September 1993
7 m awayRef 199350C241194
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 14 August 2006
16 m awayRef 200650C21K667
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 3 February 1986
18 m awayRef 198650C240076
Slight
John Deere crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 5 September 2007
90 m awayRef 200750C21K834
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 23 March 1979
94 m awayRef 197950H560091
Slight
Car crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 14 August 1984
126 m awayRef 198450C240389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Other vehicle
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 39, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201550CS2H001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2015.