A3123 crash in North Devon on 5 December 2014 at 19:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3123 in North Devon at 19:45 on Friday 5 December 2014. The 20-year-old male 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
- 5 Dec 2014
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17538, longitude -4.04932, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CI2E005
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3123
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 8 September 2006
8 m awayRef 200650C31L342
Serious
JCB crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 20 April 2001
76 m awayRef 200150C312345
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 26 October 1992
146 m awayRef 199250C310973
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 21 August 2023
174 m awayRef 2023501343880
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 7 August 2018
239 m awayRef 2018500320807
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 22 October 2008
305 m awayRef 200850CI2E012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 201450CI2E005 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 2014.