B3257 crash in West Devon on 29 January 2012 at 07:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3257 in West Devon at 07:10 on Sunday 29 January 2012. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53011, longitude -4.18971, in the PL19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bere Ferrers, West Devon, PL19 8HX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JT2D002
- 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
- 3257
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1992.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 17 May 1992
35 m awayRef 199250E611056
Slight
MCC Smart crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 15 May 2011
37 m awayRef 201150JT2D002
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 3 September 1985
175 m awayRef 198550E611685
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 13 March 2002
175 m awayRef 200250E610594
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 20 August 2001
175 m awayRef 200150E611814
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A390 in West Devon, 8 September 1996
175 m awayRef 199650E612078
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201250JT2D002 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.