B3215 crash in West Devon on 19 August 2017 at 12:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3215 in West Devon at 12:00 on Saturday 19 August 2017. The 43-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2017
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77552, longitude -3.93975, 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
- 2017500216229
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2007.
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 4 December 2007
33 m awayRef 200750C51P017
Slight
Car crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 7 January 1992
134 m awayRef 199250C510012
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 16 December 2017
293 m awayRef 2017500271757
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 25 May 2016
293 m awayRef 2016500073837
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 20 August 2015
467 m awayRef 201550JO2H007
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the B3215 in West Devon, 25 May 2017
467 m awayRef 2017500186673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2017500216229 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 2017.