Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 1 August 2016 at 19:10 involving a BMW M3
A BMW M3 and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 19:10 on Monday 1 August 2016. The 28-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2016
- Monday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW M3 and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71646, longitude -3.53392, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500115089
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2004.
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 January 2004
2 m awayRef 200450D21A740
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 28 July 1981
10 m awayRef 198150J650730
Slight
MZ crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 20 June 1996
16 m awayRef 199650D211820
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A377 in Exeter, 5 November 1997
16 m awayRef 199750D214064
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 14 December 1989
27 m awayRef 198950D212219
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 10 January 2023
32 m awayRef 2023501296876
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016500115089 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 2016.