Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 8 May 2021 at 18:40 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 18:40 on Saturday 8 May 2021. The 31-year-old female driver of the BMW 4 Series and the 52-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2021
- Saturday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85003, longitude -3.38343, in the EX15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cullompton Padbrook, Mid Devon, EX15 1EU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501049115
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Raining, 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, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 24 April 2015.
Fatal
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 24 April 2015
8 m awayRef 201550KU2J004
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 23 December 1982
39 m awayRef 198250D422366
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 11 January 2006
77 m awayRef 200650D42A327
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 23 August 1996
112 m awayRef 199650D422638
Slight
Hyundai ix35 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 10 August 2025
112 m awayRef 2025501627221
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 17 July 1987
154 m awayRef 198750D421068
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021501049115 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2021.