Serious B3261 crash in East Devon on 14 January 2008 at 10:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3261 in East Devon at 10:30 on Monday 14 January 2008. The 34-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 2008
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7777, longitude -2.98587, in the EX13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Axminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Axminster, East Devon, EX13 5AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850D36A644
- Council area
- East 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
- 3261
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 2 December 2012
6 m awayRef 201250KA2J015
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 27 June 2023
11 m awayRef 2023501324655
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 20 October 2022
22 m awayRef 2022501233212
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3261 in East Devon, 24 December 1995
22 m awayRef 199550D362865
Serious
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 23 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198450D360146
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A35 in East Devon, 2 September 1991
41 m awayRef 199150D361542
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Previous accident
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 34, 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 200850D36A644 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2008.