B3230 crash in North Devon on 27 February 2009 at 21:35 involving a Toyota
A Toyota crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 21:35 on Friday 27 February 2009. The 25-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2009
- Friday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15473, longitude -4.08496, 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
- 200950CI2C002
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 June 1986.
Serious
Van crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 7 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C310491
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 2 August 1989
50 m awayRef 198950C310852
Fatal
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 1 November 1984
51 m awayRef 198450C310517
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 22 May 1984
51 m awayRef 198450C310205
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 8 December 2025
60 m awayRef 2025501680440
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 6 September 2008
81 m awayRef 200850CI2C005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200950CI2C002 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 2009.