Serious unclassified road crash in West Devon EX20 on 26 May 2017 at 22:47 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 crashed on an unclassified road in West Devon at 22:47 on Friday 26 May 2017. The 23-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 May 2017
- Friday, 22:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69836, longitude -3.88434, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500191099
- Council area
- West 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2024.
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 27 March 2024
13 m awayRef 2024501447749
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 26 July 1982
41 m awayRef 198250C510298
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 16 October 1984
361 m awayRef 198450C510483
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on a C road in Torbay, 8 November 1990
476 m awayRef 199050F312153
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 18 August 1994
735 m awayRef 199450C510990
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 7 October 2007
797 m awayRef 200750C51M589
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2017500191099 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 2017.