A303 crash in East Devon on 15 May 2018 at 13:54 involving an Audi A6
Four vehicles, including a goods vehicle and an Audi A6, were involved in a crash on the A303 in East Devon at 13:54 on Tuesday 15 May 2018. The 50-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2018
- Tuesday, 13:54
- Vehicles
- 4
- Audi A6 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88281, longitude -3.0872, in the EX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunkeswell & Otterhead, East Devon, EX14 9NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500300393
- 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
- 303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3170
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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 June 2010.
Fatal
Volvo 940 crash on the A303 in East Devon, 14 June 2010
15 m awayRef 201050KH2A002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 31 May 2004
15 m awayRef 200450D35H020
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A303 in East Devon, 23 May 1999
15 m awayRef 199950D352768
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A30 in East Devon, 27 September 2001
17 m awayRef 200150D355996
Slight
Van crash on the B3170 in East Devon, 6 January 1998
25 m awayRef 199850D350215
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A30 in East Devon, 4 May 1998
27 m awayRef 199850D352562
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A6)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2018500300393 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 2018.