Serious B3232 crash in North Devon on 8 July 2010 at 00:26 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3232 in North Devon at 00:26 on Thursday 8 July 2010. The 17-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
- 8 Jul 2010
- Thursday, 00:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06033, longitude -4.08328, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050CB2E008
- 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
- 3232
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 1996.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 19 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199650C210218
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 3 February 1992
32 m awayRef 199250C210086
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 5 November 2012
48 m awayRef 201250CB2E006
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 16 December 2006
54 m awayRef 200650C21P863
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 30 May 2009
63 m awayRef 200950CB2E008
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 28 November 2025
65 m awayRef 2025501675361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 201050CB2E008 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 2010.