B3230 crash in North Devon on 3 December 2015 at 18:00 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B3230 in North Devon at 18:00 on Thursday 3 December 2015. The 29-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1036, longitude -4.04871, 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
- 201550CB2G005
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 14 August 1994
11 m awayRef 199450C210947
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 26 June 2008
12 m awayRef 200850CB2G003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 25 November 2022
13 m awayRef 2022501247760
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 3 April 2019
35 m awayRef 2019500834800
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 3 December 2014
36 m awayRef 201450CB2G009
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 30 July 1995
43 m awayRef 199550C210977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201550CB2G005 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.