A30 crash in West Devon on 7 December 2017 at 15:13 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 15:13 on Thursday 7 December 2017. The 83-year-old male driver and an 82-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 15:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7153, longitude -4.04737, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500253914
- Council area
- West 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 8 September 1984
21 m awayRef 198450C510427
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 7 January 1986
29 m awayRef 198650C510044
Serious
Lorry crash on the A30 in West Devon, 31 January 1986
39 m awayRef 198650C510074
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 1 June 1986
41 m awayRef 198650C510475
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 27 August 1987
67 m awayRef 198750C512923
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A30 in West Devon, 10 September 2021
86 m awayRef 2021501096578
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2017500253914 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.