B3260 crash in West Devon on 14 December 1993 at 06:55 involving a Renault 11
A Renault 11 crashed on the B3260 in West Devon at 06:55 on Tuesday 14 December 1993. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1993
- Tuesday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 11
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7301, longitude -4.02403, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199350C511587
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3260
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 June 1979.
Serious
Van crash on the A30 in West Devon, 5 June 1979
58 m awayRef 197950H260204
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 23 October 1979
86 m awayRef 197950H260488
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 14 July 1985
86 m awayRef 198550C510267
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 19 March 1993
102 m awayRef 199350C510248
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 3 May 1979
166 m awayRef 197950H260148
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 2 October 1985
184 m awayRef 198550C510439
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 11
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 11)
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 199350C511587 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 1993.