B3212 crash in West Devon on 26 December 2007 at 22:54 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender crashed on the B3212 in West Devon at 22:54 on Wednesday 26 December 2007. The 59-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 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 22:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Defender
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50589, longitude -4.05553, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750E61P928
- Council area
- West 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
- 3212
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2000.
Slight
Aprilia crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 5 March 2000
61 m awayRef 200050E610586
Serious
Renault crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 5 September 1996
95 m awayRef 199650E612057
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 9 November 2014
104 m awayRef 201450JT2S005
Serious
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 14 November 1981
114 m awayRef 198150G531005
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 3 May 2009
117 m awayRef 200950JT2S003
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 18 July 1989
149 m awayRef 198950E611372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Defender)
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 200750E61P928 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2007.