Serious A358 crash in East Devon on 24 June 2017 at 09:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A358 in East Devon at 09:30 on Saturday 24 June 2017. The 48-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2017
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73744, longitude -3.04245, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500197658
- 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
- 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
- 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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 August 1994.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A358 in East Devon, 13 August 1994
41 m awayRef 199450D341959
Fatal
Scania crash on the A358 in East Devon, 20 March 2010
48 m awayRef 201050KN3D002
Serious
Van crash on the A358 in East Devon, 18 November 1986
95 m awayRef 198650D342133
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A358 in East Devon, 18 August 1993
113 m awayRef 199350D342009
Fatal
Jaguar X Type crash on the A358 in East Devon, 16 March 2014
160 m awayRef 201450KN3D003
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 12 May 1986
168 m awayRef 198650D340862
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 48, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017500197658 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.