B3343 crash in North Devon on 31 July 2001 at 23:33 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro crashed on the B3343 in North Devon at 23:33 on Tuesday 31 July 2001. The 26-year-old male driver, a 23-year-old male passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were 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
- 31 Jul 2001
- Tuesday, 23:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17294, longitude -4.19093, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150C314602
- Council area
- North 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
- 3343
- 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 serious injury crash on 20 August 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 20 August 1981
32 m awayRef 198150H580454
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 28 June 1981
36 m awayRef 198150H580347
Serious
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 14 June 1980
36 m awayRef 198050H580229
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 8 July 1990
41 m awayRef 199050C310682
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 29 June 2023
42 m awayRef 2023501324250
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 22 May 2009
45 m awayRef 200950CI2A005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200150C314602 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2001.