B3343 crash in North Devon on 12 August 1998 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the B3343 in North Devon at 16:30 on Wednesday 12 August 1998. The 50-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1998
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17208, longitude -4.19125, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850C314891
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3343
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
- 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 19 August 2001.
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 19 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200150C315002
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 13 June 2015
12 m awayRef 201550CI2A004
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 25 June 1979
14 m awayRef 197950H580245
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 13 June 1981
32 m awayRef 198150H560273
Serious
Yamaha XT crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 4 July 2024
47 m awayRef 2024501463527
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 30 March 2005
78 m awayRef 200550C31D722
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199850C314891 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1998.