B3227 crash in North Devon on 26 February 2005 at 22:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 22:25 on Saturday 26 February 2005. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2005
- Saturday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01701, longitude -3.85164, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C24C324
- 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
- 3227
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 181 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 14 February 1998
181 m awayRef 199850C240878
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 23 January 1999
252 m awayRef 199950C240426
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 8 March 2004
321 m awayRef 200450C24D279
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 20 February 2008
332 m awayRef 200850C24B709
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 29 April 2017
343 m awayRef 2017500182344
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 25 August 1993
382 m awayRef 199350C241032
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200550C24C324 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 2005.