B3179 crash in East Devon on 19 April 2000 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A bicycle and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B3179 in East Devon at 13:30 on Wednesday 19 April 2000. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2000
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67422, longitude -3.40446, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D311904
- Council area
- East 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
- 3179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 30 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198050L761043
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 5 July 2017
12 m awayRef 2017500202027
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 27 July 2024
13 m awayRef 2024501472760
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 9 June 1999
14 m awayRef 199950D313228
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 22 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200450D31S219
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 December 1985
20 m awayRef 198550D312388
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200050D311904 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2000.