A3072 crash in West Devon on 30 December 2015 at 11:20 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 11:20 on Wednesday 30 December 2015. The 43-year-old female driver, an 8-year-old female passenger and an 11-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78744, longitude -3.90546, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JO4P006
- Council area
- West 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
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3072
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1987.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 15 July 1987
7 m awayRef 198750C522723
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 5 October 1985
21 m awayRef 198550C520443
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 September 1991
25 m awayRef 199150C520960
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 17 May 1986
28 m awayRef 198650C520404
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 24 November 1985
28 m awayRef 198550C520548
Slight
Daewoo Leganza crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 19 October 2011
32 m awayRef 201150JO4P008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201550JO4P006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2015.