B3161 crash in East Devon on 6 September 2015 at 12:19 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Kia Carens were involved in a crash on the B3161 in East Devon at 12:19 on Sunday 6 September 2015. The 18-year-old male driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2015
- Sunday, 12:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Kia Carens
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73685, longitude -3.06651, in the EX24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550KN3C005
- Council area
- East 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
- 3161
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 13 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D340814
Slight
Kawasaki KDX125 crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 10 July 1994
31 m awayRef 199450D341773
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 24 August 1990
48 m awayRef 199050D341652
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 30 March 1983
70 m awayRef 198350D340514
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 1 May 1980
73 m awayRef 198050L800290
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 27 November 1991
96 m awayRef 199150D342115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Carens
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
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 201550KN3C005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2015.