B3178 crash in East Devon on 8 February 2012 at 16:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B3178 in East Devon at 16:40 on Wednesday 8 February 2012. A 56-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.62076, longitude -3.39608, in the EX8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exmouth Littleham, East Devon, EX8 2FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KE2C002
- 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
- 3178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1993.
Slight
Ford crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 13 July 1993
11 m awayRef 199350D311711
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 3 November 2012
14 m awayRef 201250KE2E016
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 6 June 2020
17 m awayRef 2020500960002
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A376 in East Devon, 6 June 1992
43 m awayRef 199250D310907
Slight
Scooter crash on the A376 in East Devon, 18 June 1988
54 m awayRef 198850D310942
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 3 November 1979
60 m awayRef 197950L750809
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 201250KE2C002 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.