B3184 crash in East Devon on 4 December 1998 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A car and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on the B3184 in East Devon at 17:30 on Friday 4 December 1998. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1998
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71494, longitude -3.38863, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850D217421
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3184
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2008.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the B3184 in East Devon, 15 May 2008
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 16 October 1991
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Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the M5 in East Devon, 10 October 1998
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Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3184 in East Devon, 25 January 2002
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 21 November 2001
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 17 June 1985
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 199850D217421 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1998.