B3181 crash in Mid Devon on 27 March 1997 at 18:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon at 18:15 on Thursday 27 March 1997. The 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89224, longitude -3.36916, in the EX15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Willand.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750D421157
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 6 March 2005
40 m awayRef 200550D41D330
Serious
Austin Ambassador crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 8 November 1991
67 m awayRef 199150D421988
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 18 June 2013
75 m awayRef 201350KU2I005
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 5 August 2003
81 m awayRef 200350D42N477
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 16 March 2017
90 m awayRef 2017500167298
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 7 December 2011
90 m awayRef 201150KU2I007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 199750D421157 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1997.