A30 crash in West Devon on 29 April 2018 at 03:40 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 03:40 on Sunday 29 April 2018. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2018
- Sunday, 03:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70533, longitude -4.06779, in the EX20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridestowe, West Devon, EX20 4LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500294498
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A30 in West Devon, 3 August 2020
47 m awayRef 2020500987335
Serious
Bentley crash on a C road in West Devon, 28 November 1997
74 m awayRef 199750C534482
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 10 August 1984
78 m awayRef 198450C530368
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in West Devon, 20 October 2020
80 m awayRef 2020501005175
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A30 in West Devon, 28 October 2006
84 m awayRef 200650C51N947
Slight
Suzuki GSX 650 crash on the A30 in West Devon, 10 September 2013
102 m awayRef 201350JO3C007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018500294498 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 2018.