Serious B3178 crash in East Devon on 3 August 2000 at 18:50 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3178 in East Devon at 18:50 on Thursday 3 August 2000. The 35-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63344, longitude -3.34682, in the EX9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D314152
- 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
- 3178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3179
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 29 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200750D31O651
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 1 June 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D320966
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 29 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025501622318
Slight
Honda CMX500 crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 27 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018500801310
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 10 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020500999622
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 6 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D322368
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,342 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 35, on vehicle 2 (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 200050D314152 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.