Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 2 October 2018 at 09:11 involving a Citroen Relay van
A Citroen Relay van and a Citroen C4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 09:11 on Tuesday 2 October 2018. The 51-year-old male driver of the Citroen Relay van and the 28-year-old male driver of the Citroen C4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2018
- Tuesday, 09:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Relay and Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70005, longitude -3.52174, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alphington, Exeter, EX2 8PW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500800297
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2011.
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 April 2011
8 m awayRef 201150DE2T004
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 23 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201050DE2T009
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 March 2001
14 m awayRef 200150D211347
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 November 2002
54 m awayRef 200250D216919
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 May 2007
64 m awayRef 200750D21F630
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 November 2010
71 m awayRef 201050DE2T022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Relay
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Relay)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C4)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018500800297 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2018.