B3181 crash in East Devon on 17 November 2005 at 08:32 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B3181 in East Devon at 08:32 on Thursday 17 November 2005. The 65-year-old male driver of the car and the 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 08:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7609, longitude -3.4425, 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
- 200550D35P191
- 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
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 26 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025501684531
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 6 November 2019
6 m awayRef 2019500900370
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 13 December 1989
30 m awayRef 198950D212214
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 7 October 1988
32 m awayRef 198850D211645
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 24 June 2003
41 m awayRef 200350D21H367
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 7 March 1984
51 m awayRef 198450D210369
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200550D35P191 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 2005.