B3180 crash in East Devon on 15 January 1990 at 06:30 involving a Renault 11
A Renault 11 and an Austin Mini were involved in a crash on the B3180 in East Devon at 06:30 on Monday 15 January 1990. The 48-year-old male driver of the Austin Mini was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 1990
- Monday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 11 and Austin Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72265, longitude -3.33729, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050D210083
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1997.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 11 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199750D351880
Serious
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 16 May 1987
22 m awayRef 198750D210690
Serious
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 1 June 1984
50 m awayRef 198450D210888
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 16 August 1995
104 m awayRef 199550D211708
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 24 July 2024
106 m awayRef 2024501480151
Serious
Bedford crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 10 April 1991
117 m awayRef 199150D210662
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 11
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 848 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Mini)
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 199050D210083 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1990.