B3178 crash in East Devon on 9 December 2018 at 14:00 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a Suzuki Alto were involved in a crash on the B3178 in East Devon at 14:00 on Sunday 9 December 2018. The 76-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i10 and the 36-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Alto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Suzuki Alto
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67538, longitude -3.31038, in the EX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500807758
- Council area
- East 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
- 3178
- 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
- 3178
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 15 February 1987
4 m awayRef 198750D320221
Slight
Van crash on the A376 in East Devon, 17 October 1988
12 m awayRef 198850D311692
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 15 December 1993
12 m awayRef 199350D323147
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A376 in East Devon, 11 March 1996
14 m awayRef 199650D320775
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 22 December 1979
14 m awayRef 197950L760939
Slight
Car crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 1 November 2019
23 m awayRef 2019500903651
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Alto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Alto)
- 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 2018500807758 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2018.