Serious A3123 crash in North Devon on 8 September 2006 at 12:15 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a car were involved in a crash on the A3123 in North Devon at 12:15 on Friday 8 September 2006. The 35-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 was seriously injured and the 75-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 2006
- Friday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17532, longitude -4.0494, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650C31L342
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3123
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 5 December 2014
8 m awayRef 201450CI2E005
Serious
JCB crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 20 April 2001
71 m awayRef 200150C312345
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 26 October 1992
140 m awayRef 199250C310973
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 21 August 2023
168 m awayRef 2023501343880
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 7 August 2018
233 m awayRef 2018500320807
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 22 October 2008
311 m awayRef 200850CI2E012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200650C31L342 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 2006.