B3227 crash in North Devon on 13 December 1999 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
Two Vauxhall Cavaliers were involved in a crash on the B3227 in North Devon at 19:00 on Monday 13 December 1999. The 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 13 Dec 1999
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01825, longitude -3.69941, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199950C247205
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3227
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 September 2002.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 6 September 2002
42 m awayRef 200250C245640
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 14 October 2002
410 m awayRef 200250C246337
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 21 December 2009
483 m awayRef 200950CS2E009
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 3 October 2006
630 m awayRef 200650C24M525
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 6 January 2005
724 m awayRef 200550C24A272
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 6 May 1988
747 m awayRef 198850C244456
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 199950C247205 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 1999.