B3226 crash in North Devon on 16 January 2004 at 20:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3226 in North Devon at 20:50 on Friday 16 January 2004. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2004
- Friday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01285, longitude -3.83622, in the EX36 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Molton. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Molton, North Devon, EX36 3AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450C24A824
- Council area
- North 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
- 3226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 15 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198750C242815
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 17 October 2007
32 m awayRef 200750C24M794
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 26 July 1980
36 m awayRef 198050H570317
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 8 July 2025
43 m awayRef 2025501613212
Serious
Benelli BN crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 30 September 2025
44 m awayRef 2025501655281
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 26 June 2022
48 m awayRef 2022501197182
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200450C24A824 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 2004.