B3181 crash in Mid Devon on 4 September 2000 at 15:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Prairie were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon at 15:45 on Monday 4 September 2000. The 43-year-old female driver of the Nissan Prairie was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2000
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Prairie
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82082, longitude -3.40388, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D424680
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 24 September 2025
23 m awayRef 2025501645675
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 25 May 1998
72 m awayRef 199850D422895
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 14 May 1987
110 m awayRef 198750D420680
Fatal
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 25 April 1981
110 m awayRef 198150L910276
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 3 August 1994
110 m awayRef 199450D421885
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 22 February 1989
124 m awayRef 198950D420278
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Prairie
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,974 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Prairie)
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 200050D424680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2000.