B3137 crash in Mid Devon on 24 October 2016 at 14:00 involving a Suzuki Alto
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2016
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91179, longitude -3.66932, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500135273
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 3137
- 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
- Raining, 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, 121 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 July 2021.
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 9 July 2021
121 m awayRef 2021501067441
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 24 April 1991
144 m awayRef 199150C250348
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 23 December 2015
161 m awayRef 201550KC5H001
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 31 July 2025
161 m awayRef 2025501623516
Slight
Car crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 8 September 2008
162 m awayRef 200850KC5H001
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A373 in North Devon, 27 November 1981
170 m awayRef 198150H570634
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Alto
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,061 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Alto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016500135273 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2016.