Serious C road crash in West Devon EX20 on 16 June 2012 at 17:55 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 17:55 on Saturday 16 June 2012. A 76-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Avensis was seriously injured and the 22-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and a 63-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Avensis 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
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73377, longitude -4.03009, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JO2S006
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1993.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 12 September 1993
14 m awayRef 199350C511306
Slight
Car crash on the B3218 in West Devon, 12 August 1985
17 m awayRef 198550C510333
Slight
Car crash on the B3218 in West Devon, 25 June 1984
45 m awayRef 198450C510261
Serious
Triumph Dolomite crash on a C road in West Devon, 19 August 1993
88 m awayRef 199350C511009
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 11 December 2009
253 m awayRef 200950JO2S010
Serious
Honda crash on the A386 in West Devon, 19 August 1992
278 m awayRef 199250C510732
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- 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 201250JO2S006 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 2012.