B3257 crash in West Devon on 23 January 1997 at 17:50 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the B3257 in West Devon at 17:50 on Thursday 23 January 1997. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 1997
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50676, longitude -4.16989, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750E610188
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3257
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2002.
Slight
Nissan D22 crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 11 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200250E612783
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 1 May 1987
14 m awayRef 198750E610777
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 11 January 1997
14 m awayRef 199750E610306
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 12 January 1993
22 m awayRef 199350E610108
Serious
MZ crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 2 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199650E611257
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 26 January 1982
30 m awayRef 198250G530041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 199750E610188 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.