B3233 crash in North Devon on 22 November 1995 at 10:10 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B3233 in North Devon at 10:10 on Wednesday 22 November 1995. The 45-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 1995
- Wednesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07201, longitude -4.11201, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550C211541
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 11 September 1981
36 m awayRef 198150H560479
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 4 August 1985
36 m awayRef 198550C210320
Slight
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 4 August 1985
42 m awayRef 198550C210310
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 5 August 2002
73 m awayRef 200250C214857
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 15 April 1984
76 m awayRef 198450C210154
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 18 August 2012
86 m awayRef 201250CB3D007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199550C211541 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1995.