B3357 crash in West Devon on 19 December 1986 at 08:50 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on the B3357 in West Devon at 08:50 on Friday 19 December 1986. A 15-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1986
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54563, longitude -3.87977, 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
- 198650E612669
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3357
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 19 August 1984
71 m awayRef 198450E611695
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 28 July 2011
113 m awayRef 201150JT2A005
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 17 July 2013
123 m awayRef 201350JT2A005
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 19 September 1982
156 m awayRef 198250G530864
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 7 May 1984
177 m awayRef 198450E610867
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 1 July 1982
205 m awayRef 198250G530570
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 198650E612669 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.