A377 crash in Exeter on 30 September 2015 at 13:22 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Renault Kangoo van were involved in a crash on the A377 in Exeter at 13:22 on Wednesday 30 September 2015. The 25-year-old male driver of the Renault Kangoo van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 13:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Renault Kangoo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71088, longitude -3.53787, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550DE2M033
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 19 March 1983
6 m awayRef 198350D210425
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 29 May 1985
9 m awayRef 198550D210915
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 8 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198550D210357
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 5 January 1980
18 m awayRef 198050J650014
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 June 2010
24 m awayRef 201050DE2M016
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A377 in Exeter, 9 September 2016
26 m awayRef 2016500111912
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Kangoo)
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 201550DE2M033 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.