B3212 crash in West Devon on 30 April 2016 at 23:30 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR crashed on the B3212 in West Devon at 23:30 on Saturday 30 April 2016. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2016
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53935, longitude -4.00059, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500066880
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 19 October 2014.
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1400 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 19 October 2014
1 m awayRef 201450JT2S004
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 8 March 2015
2 m awayRef 201550JT2S003
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 28 September 2014
4 m awayRef 201450JT2S003
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 1 October 2007
7 m awayRef 200750E61O545
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 14 September 2002
8 m awayRef 200250E612220
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 26 October 2012
14 m awayRef 201250JT2S002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016500066880 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 2016.