B3212 crash in West Devon on 12 December 2011 at 11:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B3212 in West Devon at 11:55 on Monday 12 December 2011. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55041, longitude -3.98473, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150JT2A009
- Council area
- West 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
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 April 2008.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 26 April 2008
4 m awayRef 200850JT2A001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 14 April 2011
37 m awayRef 201150JT2A001
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 17 December 1996
57 m awayRef 199650E613087
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 1 May 1989
60 m awayRef 198950E610813
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 29 December 2005
97 m awayRef 200550E61R009
Serious
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 11 June 1981
104 m awayRef 198150G530448
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201150JT2A009 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.