Serious B3233 crash in North Devon on 23 July 2012 at 12:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3233 in North Devon at 12:45 on Monday 23 July 2012. The 56-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jul 2012
- Monday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06937, longitude -4.13583, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CB3C004
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 6 October 1984
3 m awayRef 198450C210470
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 15 November 2001
7 m awayRef 200150C217198
Slight
Car crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 17 October 1989
23 m awayRef 198950C211186
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 24 November 1987
33 m awayRef 198750C213320
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 14 June 1991
47 m awayRef 199150C210518
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 2 October 2022
56 m awayRef 2022501260934
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201250CB3C004 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 2012.