A3072 crash in West Devon on 19 December 2001 at 13:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volvo V70 were involved in a crash on the A3072 in West Devon at 13:20 on Wednesday 19 December 2001. The 27-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2001
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volvo V70
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78783, longitude -3.90358, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150C528003
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 27 February 1987
28 m awayRef 198750C522168
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 3 February 1997
28 m awayRef 199750C520292
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 8 July 2010
32 m awayRef 201050JO4P003
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 16 July 1988
36 m awayRef 198850C524755
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 25 March 1993
36 m awayRef 199350C520284
Serious
Honda XR crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 10 March 2025
36 m awayRef 2025501563422
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200150C528003 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 2001.