B3227 crash in North Devon on 20 February 2008 at 08:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 08:30 on Wednesday 20 February 2008. The 51-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2008
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01658, longitude -3.85633, 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
- 200850C24B709
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2017.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 29 April 2017
18 m awayRef 2017500182344
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 25 August 1993
50 m awayRef 199350C241032
Slight
Iveco crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 28 March 2013
59 m awayRef 201350CS2F005
Slight
Subaru Justy crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 4 September 1999
60 m awayRef 199950C245215
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 22 October 2002
70 m awayRef 200250C246374
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 8 March 2004
71 m awayRef 200450C24D279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200850C24B709 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 2008.