Serious B3230 crash in North Devon on 18 February 2009 at 20:11 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 20:11 on Wednesday 18 February 2009. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2009
- Wednesday, 20:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15101, longitude -4.08193, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950CN2D002
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 February 1994.
Serious
Peugeot 305 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 16 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199450C310210
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 30 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199550C311731
Serious
Honda crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 8 April 1991
51 m awayRef 199150C230310
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 15 November 2001
57 m awayRef 200150C317222
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 February 1987
58 m awayRef 198750C312158
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 26 November 2020
88 m awayRef 2020501009024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 200950CN2D002 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.