A358 crash in East Devon on 26 February 2017 at 15:20 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a Citroen C2 were involved in a crash on the A358 in East Devon at 15:20 on Sunday 26 February 2017. The 40-year-old male driver of the Citroen C2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82641, longitude -2.96732, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500164268
- Council area
- East 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
- 358
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 66 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 November 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 12 November 1987
66 m awayRef 198750D361870
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A358 in East Devon, 31 May 1992
74 m awayRef 199250D360859
Slight
Honda crash on the A358 in East Devon, 13 March 1991
74 m awayRef 199150D360560
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A358 in East Devon, 28 January 2024
81 m awayRef 2024501403412
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 11 August 1987
92 m awayRef 198750D361199
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 28 February 1984
94 m awayRef 198450D360326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C2)
- 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 2017500164268 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2017.