B3230 crash in North Devon on 15 December 2000 at 23:20 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 23:20 on Friday 15 December 2000. The 18-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2000
- Friday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14204, longitude -4.07538, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C236949
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3230
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 14 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200150C234202
Slight
MAN crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 30 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200350C21N048
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 27 March 2001
14 m awayRef 200150C231904
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 17 March 2022
17 m awayRef 2022501170838
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 27 January 1984
20 m awayRef 198450C230025
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 9 June 1994
20 m awayRef 199450C230661
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
- 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 200050C236949 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 2000.