B3213 crash in the South Hams on 18 January 2004 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Escort van were involved in a crash on the B3213 in the South Hams at 13:30 on Sunday 18 January 2004. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2004
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38987, longitude -3.91854, in the PL21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ivybridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ivybridge West, South Hams, PL21 9AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450E53A736
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3213
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 April 2004.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 18 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200450E53E731
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 30 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200550E53D652
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 30 November 2017
15 m awayRef 2017500249028
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 27 August 2023
17 m awayRef 2023501345999
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 1 February 2008
22 m awayRef 200850E53A855
Slight
Leyland crash on the B3213 in Plymouth, 24 January 1996
22 m awayRef 199650E530207
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200450E53A736 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2004.