B3165 crash in East Devon on 20 December 2012 at 21:43 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3165 in East Devon at 21:43 on Thursday 20 December 2012. The 34-year-old male driver and a 33-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 21:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75377, longitude -2.97112, in the DT7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KA2A006
- Council area
- East 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
- 3165
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2013.
Slight
Zontes ZT 125 crash on the B3165 in East Devon, 31 August 2013
3 m awayRef 201350KA2A009
Slight
Car crash on the A3070 in East Devon, 10 December 1989
7 m awayRef 198950D362193
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B3165 in East Devon, 16 February 2008
35 m awayRef 200850D36B535
Slight
Car crash on the A3070 in East Devon, 13 July 1989
35 m awayRef 198950D361142
Slight
Car crash on the A3070 in East Devon, 9 February 1990
45 m awayRef 199050D360283
Slight
Car crash on the B3165 in East Devon, 23 February 2003
216 m awayRef 200350D35F725
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201250KA2A006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2012.