A373 crash in East Devon on 18 December 2017 at 07:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a car were involved in a crash on the A373 in East Devon at 07:20 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 45-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85148, longitude -3.32818, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500252356
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- 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
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2016.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A373 in East Devon, 14 May 2016
31 m awayRef 2016500084027
Slight
Car crash on the B3116 in Bath and North East Somerset, 30 April 1998
33 m awayRef 1998520046400
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 2 August 1984
100 m awayRef 198450D421353
Slight
Scania crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 9 December 1992
100 m awayRef 199250D422207
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 7 May 1997
130 m awayRef 199750D421538
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 4 June 1998
132 m awayRef 1998520060275
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2017500252356 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.