B3227 crash in North Devon on 2 April 2015 at 17:30 involving a Suzuki Wagon R+
A Suzuki Wagon R+ crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 17:30 on Thursday 2 April 2015. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Wagon R+
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0146, longitude -3.74446, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CS2E002
- 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
- 3227
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2008.
Slight
Car crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 7 December 2008
47 m awayRef 200850CS2E013
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 1 November 1979
177 m awayRef 197950H570505
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 19 November 2012
201 m awayRef 201250CS2E009
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 April 1985
213 m awayRef 198550C240115
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 5 January 2009
226 m awayRef 200950CS2E001
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 20 July 1985
308 m awayRef 198550C240282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
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 201550CS2E002 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.