Serious B3233 crash in North Devon on 19 September 1995 at 08:20 involving an Opel Manta
An Opel Manta crashed on the B3233 in North Devon at 08:20 on Tuesday 19 September 1995. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 1995
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Opel Manta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96449, longitude -4.17791, in the EX38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550C411230
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 1990.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A386 in Torridge, 7 April 1990
60 m awayRef 199050C430324
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in Torridge, 24 July 1995
92 m awayRef 199550C430946
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in Torridge, 25 August 1999
102 m awayRef 199950C415071
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A386 in Torridge, 15 December 2007
108 m awayRef 200750C43P245
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A386 in Torridge, 22 April 2004
108 m awayRef 200450C43F336
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 19 February 2009
108 m awayRef 200950CT2E001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Opel Manta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Opel Manta)
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 199550C411230 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.