B3174 crash in East Devon on 31 July 2008 at 16:51 involving an MCC Smart
An MCC Smart crashed on the B3174 in East Devon at 16:51 on Thursday 31 July 2008. The 80-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 16:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCC Smart
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70017, longitude -3.08846, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850KN3H005
- 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
- 3174
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- 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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2010.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 19 September 2010
54 m awayRef 201050KN3H006
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 29 June 2024
144 m awayRef 2024501461678
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 March 1992
173 m awayRef 199250D340491
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 16 October 1979
182 m awayRef 197950L800753
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 17 August 1987
184 m awayRef 198750D341252
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 16 September 1979
231 m awayRef 197950L800670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCC Smart
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCC Smart)
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 200850KN3H005 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.