A3124 crash in West Devon on 3 October 2016 at 06:51 involving a Citroen Nemo van
A Citroen Nemo van crashed on the A3124 in West Devon at 06:51 on Monday 3 October 2016. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2016
- Monday, 06:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Nemo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76746, longitude -3.88528, 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
- 2016500131195
- 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
- 3124
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 March 1987.
Serious
Van crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 20 March 1987
18 m awayRef 198750C512260
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 22 June 1993
72 m awayRef 199350C510666
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 6 January 1998
72 m awayRef 199850C520019
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 9 May 1994
82 m awayRef 199450C510513
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 16 May 1979
83 m awayRef 197950H610172
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 6 March 1981
132 m awayRef 198150H260094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Nemo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Nemo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016500131195 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.