A375 crash in East Devon on 11 February 2019 at 19:36 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a Daihatsu Sirion were involved in a crash on the A375 in East Devon at 19:36 on Monday 11 February 2019. An 80-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Citroen Xsara and the 69-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2019
- Monday, 19:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and Daihatsu Sirion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69813, longitude -3.23543, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidmouth Sidford, East Devon, EX10 9TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500820890
- 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
- 375
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A375 in East Devon, 1 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025501572323
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 19 December 2018
13 m awayRef 2018500806550
Serious
Vauxhall Agila crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 30 May 2017
49 m awayRef 2017500191117
Slight
Bedford crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 16 March 1994
50 m awayRef 199450D330640
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the A375 in East Devon, 25 April 2019
56 m awayRef 2019500840959
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 4 July 1989
61 m awayRef 198950D331051
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Daihatsu Sirion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019500820890 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 2019.