A3072 crash in West Devon on 19 October 2011 at 09:00 involving a Daewoo Leganza
A Daewoo Leganza and a Suzuki Jimny were involved in a crash on the A3072 in West Devon at 09:00 on Wednesday 19 October 2011. The 42-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Leganza and the 41-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Jimny were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2011
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Leganza and Suzuki Jimny
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78717, longitude -3.90521, 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
- 201150JO4P008
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3215
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 2016.
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 15 May 2016
8 m awayRef 2016500079091
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 19 May 2005
9 m awayRef 200550C52G072
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 December 2015
32 m awayRef 201550JO4P006
Slight
MZ crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 5 December 1992
37 m awayRef 199250C521130
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 15 July 1987
39 m awayRef 198750C522723
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 September 1991
41 m awayRef 199150C520960
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Leganza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Jimny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Leganza)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Jimny)
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 201150JO4P008 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.