B3180 crash in East Devon on 17 December 2001 at 16:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 16:35 on Monday 17 December 2001. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2001
- Monday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68101, longitude -3.37012, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150D317892
- 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
- 3180
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 21 April 1982
85 m awayRef 198250D310622
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 1 August 1985
95 m awayRef 198550D311413
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 26 July 1982
102 m awayRef 198250D311281
Serious
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 14 September 1990
120 m awayRef 199050D311768
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 20 July 1991
128 m awayRef 199150D311277
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 22 January 1985
179 m awayRef 198550D320096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200150D317892 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 2001.