B3215 crash in West Devon on 22 November 2016 at 22:18
A vehicle crashed on the B3215 in West Devon at 22:18 on Tuesday 22 November 2016. The 28-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 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76673, longitude -3.9579, 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
- 2016500145032
- Council area
- West 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
- 3215
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2000.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 10 November 2000
12 m awayRef 200050C512989
Serious
Van crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 2 May 1987
22 m awayRef 198750C512379
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 25 October 2023
29 m awayRef 2023501370069
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 10 September 2019
43 m awayRef 2019500894702
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 21 March 2016
58 m awayRef 2016500059654
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 9 June 1990
73 m awayRef 199050C510556
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016500145032 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.