Serious A376 crash in East Devon on 2 September 2022 at 18:10 involving a Seat Mii
Four vehicles, including a Seat Mii and a Seat Ibiza, were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 18:10 on Friday 2 September 2022. The 70-year-old female driver of the Seat Mii was seriously injured and the 58-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Sep 2022
- Friday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Seat Mii and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71142, longitude -3.4611, in the EX5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clyst Valley, East Devon, EX5 1QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022501215006
- 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
- 376
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2023.
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 18 March 2023
5 m awayRef 2023501288172
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 11 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025501653389
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A376 in East Devon, 23 August 2022
16 m awayRef 2022501215317
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 2 July 1983
22 m awayRef 198350D211188
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 13 June 1984
27 m awayRef 198450D210937
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A376 in East Devon, 2 March 2025
28 m awayRef 2025501560253
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Seat Mii
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Audi Q7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Mii)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
- 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 2022501215006 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 2022.