Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX1 on 5 November 2015 at 17:17 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 17:17 on Thursday 5 November 2015. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 17:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72849, longitude -3.51338, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown and St Leonard's, Exeter, EX1 2ED area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550DE2G014
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 3 November 1985
4 m awayRef 198550D212116
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 14 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200850DE2G017
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Exeter, 26 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199550D211152
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 4 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198350D210169
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D212295
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 12 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198450D212278
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,871 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, on vehicle 2 (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 201550DE2G014 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 2015.