A3079 crash in West Devon on 11 August 2010 at 18:16 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A3079 in West Devon at 18:16 on Wednesday 11 August 2010. The 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2010
- Wednesday, 18:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72684, longitude -4.0829, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050JO3C017
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3079
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 1 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201050JO3C001
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 5 June 2012
14 m awayRef 201250JO3C002
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 20 November 2010
14 m awayRef 201050JO3C021
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A3079 in Torridge, 28 February 2005
14 m awayRef 200550C42C665
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 16 November 2010
20 m awayRef 201050JO3C020
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 20 January 2009
20 m awayRef 200950JO3C003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201050JO3C017 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2010.