B3180 crash in East Devon on 17 July 1990 at 08:45 involving a Bedford bus
A Bedford bus and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B3180 in East Devon at 08:45 on Tuesday 17 July 1990. The 46-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1990
- Tuesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bedford and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.747, longitude -3.33089, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050D351359
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 22 March 1987
28 m awayRef 198750D210365
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3180 in Exeter, 3 August 2005
58 m awayRef 200550D35J651
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 22 December 2001
82 m awayRef 200150D358069
Fatal
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 24 November 2014
161 m awayRef 201450KO2W008
Serious
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 30 August 1983
242 m awayRef 198350D211611
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 24 December 1985
281 m awayRef 198550D352507
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199050D351359 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.