Serious B3226 crash in North Devon on 26 April 2012 at 22:12 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B3226 in North Devon at 22:12 on Thursday 26 April 2012. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 2012
- Thursday, 22:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03475, longitude -3.85511, in the EX36 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chittlehampton, North Devon, EX36 3RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CS2F004
- 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
- 3226
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 361
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2023.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 23 November 2023
7 m awayRef 2023501378636
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 20 April 2015
9 m awayRef 201550CS2F003
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 2 February 2023
9 m awayRef 2023501271341
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 5 August 2012
13 m awayRef 201250CS2F009
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 10 June 2011
13 m awayRef 201150CS2F008
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 11 April 2018
13 m awayRef 2018500294891
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201250CS2F004 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.