B3217 crash in West Devon on 15 July 2000 at 05:15 involving a Vauxhall Rascal van
A Vauxhall Rascal van crashed on the B3217 in West Devon at 05:15 on Saturday 15 July 2000. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Rascal
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82888, longitude -4.01374, in the EX19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C521960
- Council area
- West 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
- 3217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 128 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 25 August 1979
128 m awayRef 197950H260391
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 15 March 2009
139 m awayRef 200950JO4M001
Serious
Car crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 12 July 1986
162 m awayRef 198650C520680
Slight
Yamaha XT 125 crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 25 June 2009
199 m awayRef 200950JO4M002
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 26 September 2012
207 m awayRef 201250JO4M001
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3217 in West Devon, 13 June 1995
238 m awayRef 199550C520862
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Rascal
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Rascal)
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 200050C521960 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.