B3212 crash in West Devon on 30 October 1986 at 18:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3212 in West Devon at 18:00 on Thursday 30 October 1986. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 1986
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49507, longitude -4.08094, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650E612171
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2009.
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 5 November 2009
57 m awayRef 200950JT2R021
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 4 September 2014
76 m awayRef 201450JT2R011
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 13 November 2004
80 m awayRef 200450E61Q246
Slight
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 22 December 1985
80 m awayRef 198550E612569
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 7 April 1990
100 m awayRef 199050E610682
Fatal
Van crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 21 October 1983
108 m awayRef 198350E612193
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198650E612171 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1986.