Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX1 on 16 February 2021 at 12:37 involving a Toyota
A Toyota and a Volkswagen Caddy van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 12:37 on Tuesday 16 February 2021. The 23-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddy van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2021
- Tuesday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73615, longitude -3.47601, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pinhoe, Exeter, EX4 8HQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501064950
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3181
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 January 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 6 January 2023
4 m awayRef 2023501260641
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 September 2021
5 m awayRef 2021501095375
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 January 2020
5 m awayRef 2020500919794
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 9 November 2011
9 m awayRef 201150DE2E027
Serious
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 19 April 2009
9 m awayRef 200950DE2E006
Slight
Fendt crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 21 December 2015
39 m awayRef 201550DE2E031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Caddy)
- 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 2021501064950 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 2021.