Serious B3180 crash in East Devon on 18 February 2009 at 12:10 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 12:10 on Wednesday 18 February 2009. A 4-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2009
- Wednesday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73869, longitude -3.32886, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950KO2W002
- 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
- 3180
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2025.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 8 October 2025
12 m awayRef 2025501661606
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 3 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200450D35R314
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 6 April 1984
20 m awayRef 198450D350530
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 November 2000
20 m awayRef 200050D356027
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 25 September 1986
20 m awayRef 198650D351771
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 24 June 1983
22 m awayRef 198350D351118
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,581 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 200950KO2W002 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 2009.