B3230 crash in North Devon on 15 December 2005 at 18:29 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 18:29 on Thursday 15 December 2005. The 42-year-old female 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
- 15 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 18:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17559, longitude -4.09505, in the EX34 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marwood, North Devon, EX34 9RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C31Q446
- 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
- 3230
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2021.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 1 August 2021
9 m awayRef 2021501086120
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 7 November 1985
14 m awayRef 198550C310512
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 10 March 2000
20 m awayRef 200050C311141
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 16 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199950C314793
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 10 April 1989
22 m awayRef 198950C310368
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 19 September 2017
39 m awayRef 2017500226149
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, 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 200550C31Q446 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.