Serious B3343 crash in North Devon on 8 April 2012 at 22:10 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the B3343 in North Devon at 22:10 on Sunday 8 April 2012. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17607, longitude -4.15788, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CI2R003
- 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
- 3343
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 27 June 1987
80 m awayRef 198750C312643
Slight
Honda FES125 crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 31 May 2018
120 m awayRef 2018500306846
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 20 July 1991
140 m awayRef 199150C310672
Serious
MG Maestro crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 16 September 1990
160 m awayRef 199050C311019
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 26 July 2014
177 m awayRef 201450CI2A006
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 29 August 2006
200 m awayRef 200650C31K836
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 201250CI2R003 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.