Serious B3226 crash in North Devon on 15 February 2017 at 12:55 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on the B3226 in North Devon at 12:55 on Wednesday 15 February 2017. The 83-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2017
- Wednesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9484, longitude -3.89804, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500162708
- Council area
- North 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
- 3226
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3226
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 August 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 25 August 1983
15 m awayRef 198350C240388
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 20 September 1985
38 m awayRef 198550C240417
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 17 July 1986
41 m awayRef 198650C240694
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 28 July 1986
43 m awayRef 198650C240749
Slight
Vauxhall Antara crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 22 November 2019
47 m awayRef 2019500907463
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 22 February 1981
136 m awayRef 198150H570081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2017500162708 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2017.