B3227 crash in North Devon on 2 September 2011 at 22:24 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 22:24 on Friday 2 September 2011. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old female passenger were 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
- 2 Sep 2011
- Friday, 22:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98304, longitude -4.03534, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150CS2H003
- 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
- 3227
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 1991.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 16 August 1991
37 m awayRef 199150C240762
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 24 November 2014
37 m awayRef 201450CS2H009
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 15 December 2003
63 m awayRef 200350C43Q534
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 7 January 2012
67 m awayRef 201250CS2H001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 2 July 2003
70 m awayRef 200350C43L769
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the B3227 in Torridge, 27 November 2020
99 m awayRef 2020501015361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 201150CS2H003 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 2011.