C road crash in West Devon EX19 on 12 September 1997 at 08:35 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 08:35 on Friday 12 September 1997. The 49-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX 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
- 12 Sep 1997
- Friday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen AX and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82891, longitude -4.02092, in the EX19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750C423591
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 163 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2003.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 12 June 2003
163 m awayRef 200350C51L112
Slight
Car crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 25 August 1979
439 m awayRef 197950H260391
Serious
Car crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 12 July 1986
471 m awayRef 198650C520680
Slight
Yamaha XT 125 crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 25 June 2009
485 m awayRef 200950JO4M002
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 26 September 2012
490 m awayRef 201250JO4M001
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 13 June 1995
501 m awayRef 199550C520862
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
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 199750C423591 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 1997.