Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 19 September 2023 at 16:00 involving a Tesla Model 3
A Tesla Model 3 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 16:00 on Tuesday 19 September 2023. The 45-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2023
- Tuesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Tesla Model 3 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73471, longitude -3.50267, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mincinglake and Whipton, Exeter, EX4 8AY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501367358
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 June 1984
8 m awayRef 198450D211009
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 October 2009
56 m awayRef 200950DE2G024
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 15 April 1997
64 m awayRef 199750D211174
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 20 October 2004
66 m awayRef 200450D21O907
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 6 October 1992
70 m awayRef 199250D211722
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 December 2015
79 m awayRef 201550DE2G016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Tesla Model 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2023501367358 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 2023.