Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 5 November 2015 at 22:11 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 22:11 on Thursday 5 November 2015. The 69-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 22:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91651, longitude -3.31823, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550KU2G002
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 25 April 1997
45 m awayRef 199750D421328
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 21 April 1999
283 m awayRef 199950D422147
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 7 May 2009
323 m awayRef 200950KU2G003
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 16 September 2001
427 m awayRef 200150D425785
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 14 October 1995
453 m awayRef 199550D422192
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 4 September 1979
538 m awayRef 197950L910649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 201550KU2G002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2015.