A3072 crash in West Devon on 16 March 2011 at 08:13 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A3072 in West Devon at 08:13 on Wednesday 16 March 2011. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo and a 43-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2011
- Wednesday, 08:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78871, longitude -3.89428, 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
- 201150JO4P003
- 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
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2020.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 9 April 2020
1 m awayRef 2020500947391
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3072 in North Devon, 13 May 2006
2 m awayRef 200650C52F914
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 26 June 2006
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Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 20 September 2006
2 m awayRef 200650C51L865
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 29 September 2012
7 m awayRef 201250JO4P005
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 3 June 2021
7 m awayRef 2021501064214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 201150JO4P003 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 2011.