B3226 crash in North Devon on 14 December 2008 at 20:09 involving a Renault Clio
A car and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B3226 in North Devon at 20:09 on Sunday 14 December 2008. The 28-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2008
- Sunday, 20:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99993, longitude -3.89087, 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
- 200850CS2G007
- 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
- 3226
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 30 June 1994
10 m awayRef 199450C240756
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 11 October 2014
12 m awayRef 201450CS2G004
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 2 December 2015
19 m awayRef 201550CS2G004
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 18 December 2021
19 m awayRef 2021501125557
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 14 June 1980
22 m awayRef 198050H570231
Serious
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 29 May 1988
41 m awayRef 198850C244556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 200850CS2G007 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.