Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX3 on 24 January 2015 at 18:06 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 18:06 on Saturday 24 January 2015. The 45-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jan 2015
- Saturday, 18:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68442, longitude -3.45967, in the EX3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Topsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550DE2W002
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 October 2009.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 12 October 2009
9 m awayRef 200950DE2W020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 25 August 2007
17 m awayRef 200750D21K530
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 4 January 1983
18 m awayRef 198350D210016
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 23 February 2008
22 m awayRef 200850D21B742
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 4 August 1988
26 m awayRef 198850D211930
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 9 December 1982
54 m awayRef 198250D212258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 45, 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 201550DE2W002 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.