B3226 crash in North Devon on 28 July 1986 at 11:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3226 in North Devon at 11:40 on Monday 28 July 1986. The 18-year-old female driver, a 13-year-old female passenger and a 9-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1986
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94816, longitude -3.89753, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650C240749
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 August 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 25 August 1983
28 m awayRef 198350C240388
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 15 February 2017
43 m awayRef 2017500162708
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 17 July 1986
71 m awayRef 198650C240694
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 20 September 1985
73 m awayRef 198550C240417
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 22 November 2019
82 m awayRef 2019500907463
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in North Devon, 4 July 1979
117 m awayRef 197950H570260
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198650C240749 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1986.