A3072 crash in West Devon on 19 June 2018 at 15:13 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 15:13 on Tuesday 19 June 2018. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 15:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79124, longitude -3.94149, 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
- 2018500309514
- 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
- 3072
- 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
- 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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 18 August 1991
52 m awayRef 199150C510767
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 3 December 1995
60 m awayRef 199550C511619
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 4 May 1984
65 m awayRef 198450C510181
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 1 July 1985
67 m awayRef 198550C510245
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 30 July 2016
69 m awayRef 2016500110457
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 9 November 2012
70 m awayRef 201250JO4Q002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018500309514 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 2018.