B3260 crash in West Devon on 13 January 2019 at 22:57 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B3260 in West Devon at 22:57 on Sunday 13 January 2019. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2019
- Sunday, 22:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73263, longitude -4.01264, 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
- 2019500840634
- 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
- 3260
- 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
- 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, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 19 February 1982
38 m awayRef 198250C510049
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 14 December 2023
44 m awayRef 2023501388455
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in West Devon, 29 August 1981
64 m awayRef 198150H260443
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 21 October 2025
87 m awayRef 2025501656954
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 14 June 1997
90 m awayRef 199750C512068
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 22 October 2008
90 m awayRef 200850JO2I005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2019500840634 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 2019.