B3183 crash in Exeter on 3 December 2000 at 20:55 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B3183 in Exeter at 20:55 on Sunday 3 December 2000. A 39-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort, the 41-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 28-year-old female driver of the Seat Ibiza were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72507, longitude -3.52301, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D216611
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3183
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3212
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2005.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 31 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200550D21F998
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 21 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D212264
Slight
Car crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 24 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D210312
Serious
Hyundai Tucson crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 December 2015
3 m awayRef 201550DE2I060
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B3183 in Exeter, 13 September 2023
4 m awayRef 2023501353383
Slight
Car crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 27 March 2019
5 m awayRef 2019500829748
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 200050D216611 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2000.