A30 crash in West Devon on 22 May 2015 at 08:00 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 08:00 on Friday 22 May 2015. The 51-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2015
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71674, longitude -3.81679, in the EX6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JO2N002
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1999.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A30 in West Devon, 14 December 1999
24 m awayRef 199950C517655
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A30 in Mid Devon, 17 January 2003
74 m awayRef 200350D43A376
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A30 in Exeter, 22 December 2007
104 m awayRef 200750D21P891
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 29 May 2018
123 m awayRef 2018500800786
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A30 in Mid Devon, 5 June 2017
123 m awayRef 2017500192037
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 31 May 2002
153 m awayRef 200250C513344
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 201550JO2N002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2015.