Serious B3223 crash in North Devon on 20 October 2013 at 11:20 involving a Toyota RAV4
A bicycle and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the B3223 in North Devon at 11:20 on Sunday 20 October 2013. The 53-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2013
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20315, longitude -3.78693, in the EX35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350CL2F002
- Council area
- North 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
- 3223
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2017.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 17 June 2017
17 m awayRef 2017500193686
Slight
Car crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 15 August 1986
854 m awayRef 198650C320863
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 August 1994
1.0 km awayRef 199450C320996
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 23 March 1997
1.1 km awayRef 199750C320992
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 October 1990
1.1 km awayRef 199050C321123
Slight
BMW crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 26 July 1996
1.1 km awayRef 199650C322273
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 53, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201350CL2F002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2013.