B3230 crash in North Devon on 6 September 2008 at 19:34 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 19:34 on Saturday 6 September 2008. The 42-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 19:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15545, longitude -4.08513, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CI2C005
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 8 December 2025
20 m awayRef 2025501680440
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 22 May 1984
30 m awayRef 198450C310205
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 2 August 1989
32 m awayRef 198950C310852
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 13 August 2008
40 m awayRef 200850CI2C002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 14 October 1985
51 m awayRef 198550C210468
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 18 November 1997
60 m awayRef 199750C234272
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- 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 200850CI2C005 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.