B3179 crash in East Devon on 13 December 2012 at 16:22 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B3179 in East Devon at 16:22 on Thursday 13 December 2012. The 57-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 16:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68629, longitude -3.43387, in the EX3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KE5O016
- 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
- 3179
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 17 December 2004
8 m awayRef 200450D31R984
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 18 May 1984
23 m awayRef 198450D210769
Slight
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 7 October 1983
23 m awayRef 198350D211911
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 30 June 2023
28 m awayRef 2023501328185
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 16 December 2002
34 m awayRef 200250D317674
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 24 March 1982
39 m awayRef 198250D210520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201250KE5O016 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.