Serious B3357 crash in West Devon on 16 July 2000 at 18:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the B3357 in West Devon at 18:00 on Sunday 16 July 2000. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2000
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55641, longitude -3.93688, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050E611937
- 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
- 3357
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 7 May 1984
32 m awayRef 198450E610890
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 7 August 1987
218 m awayRef 198750E611462
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 3 December 2024
241 m awayRef 2024501525212
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 6 May 1996
244 m awayRef 199650E611060
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 13 June 1982
263 m awayRef 198250G530502
Serious
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 9 August 1988
335 m awayRef 198850E611420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 200050E611937 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.