B3042 crash in Mid Devon on 11 November 1997 at 12:30 involving a Daihatsu Fourtrak
A Daihatsu Fourtrak and a car were involved in a crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon at 12:30 on Tuesday 11 November 1997. The 66-year-old female driver of the Daihatsu Fourtrak was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daihatsu Fourtrak and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89029, longitude -3.73252, in the EX17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750D434136
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 83 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 November 2021.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 17 November 2021
83 m awayRef 2021501134278
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 1 October 1980
120 m awayRef 198050H570447
Serious
Car crash on the B3042 in North Devon, 13 February 1983
157 m awayRef 198350C240054
Slight
Car crash on the B3042 in North Devon, 1 January 1989
170 m awayRef 198950C250002
Fatal
LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 15 December 1999
522 m awayRef 199950C257327
Slight
Van crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 8 October 1987
730 m awayRef 198750C253123
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daihatsu Fourtrak
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,765 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daihatsu Fourtrak)
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 199750D434136 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.