Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 14 July 2023 at 01:16 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 01:16 on Friday 14 July 2023. The 23-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2023
- Friday, 01:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88922, longitude -3.37694, in the EX15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willand. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Culm, Mid Devon, EX15 2QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501329223
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 14 January 1999
52 m awayRef 199950D420221
Serious
Renault crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 22 June 1993
53 m awayRef 199350D421491
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M5 in Exeter, 31 October 2003
65 m awayRef 200350D21N295
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 19 August 1979
87 m awayRef 197950L910601
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 26 May 1990
92 m awayRef 199050D420967
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the M5 in Mid Devon, 9 May 2022
100 m awayRef 2022501176395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023501329223 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 2023.