B3215 crash in West Devon on 1 March 2000 at 13:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B3215 in West Devon at 13:30 on Wednesday 1 March 2000. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2000
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77935, longitude -3.92735, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C511246
- Council area
- West 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
- 3215
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 2012.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 8 September 2012
6 m awayRef 201250JO2H004
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 11 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200350C51J484
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 3 February 2005
10 m awayRef 200550C51B396
Fatal
Nissan Pixo crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 13 February 2023
64 m awayRef 2023501276135
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 19 November 1999
125 m awayRef 199950C526945
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 1 January 1985
153 m awayRef 198550C510004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200050C511246 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 2000.