B3230 crash in North Devon on 28 August 2015 at 08:02 involving a Kia Soul
A Kia Soul crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 08:02 on Friday 28 August 2015. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2015
- Friday, 08:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Soul
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10133, longitude -4.05078, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CB2G002
- 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
- 3230
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2021.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 4 June 2021
6 m awayRef 2021501060871
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 27 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501582634
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 17 November 2023
18 m awayRef 2023501375911
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 31 October 2012
53 m awayRef 201250CB2G005
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 6 November 2011
57 m awayRef 201150CB2G007
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 13 June 1984
65 m awayRef 198450C230247
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Soul
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Soul)
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 201550CB2G002 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 2015.