A3072 crash in West Devon on 3 February 1997 at 09:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 09:45 on Monday 3 February 1997. The 24-year-old male driver 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
- 3 Feb 1997
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78771, longitude -3.9038, 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
- 199750C520292
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 16 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198850C524755
Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 29 July 2022
13 m awayRef 2022501203809
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 4 December 2022
16 m awayRef 2022501249728
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 27 March 2019
18 m awayRef 2019500829189
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 19 December 2001
28 m awayRef 200150C528003
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 27 February 1987
57 m awayRef 198750C522168
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199750C520292 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.