A3072 crash in West Devon on 4 August 1998 at 01:05 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 01:05 on Tuesday 4 August 1998. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 1998
- Tuesday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81742, longitude -4.15487, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850C514560
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1995.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 3 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199550C511152
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 10 April 2004
50 m awayRef 200450C51E758
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 October 2016
65 m awayRef 2016500126679
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 17 May 2006
71 m awayRef 200650C51F988
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 8 May 1986
85 m awayRef 198650C510378
Slight
Norton crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 2 May 2002
85 m awayRef 200250C512689
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199850C514560 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 1998.