B3217 crash in North Devon on 14 April 2021 at 13:10 involving a Suzuki Grand Vitara
A Suzuki Grand Vitara crashed on the B3217 in North Devon at 13:10 on Wednesday 14 April 2021. The 70-year-old female driver 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
- 14 Apr 2021
- Wednesday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Grand Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97246, longitude -4.00229, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021501039450
- 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
- 3217
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 7 April 2007
8 m awayRef 200750C24E144
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 25 May 2006
18 m awayRef 200650C43G283
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3217 in Torridge, 11 August 2014
34 m awayRef 201450CT2T002
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 55 crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 4 December 2002
226 m awayRef 200250C437845
Slight
Car crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 24 August 1989
305 m awayRef 198950C240957
Serious
Car crash on the B3217 in North Devon, 2 August 1981
322 m awayRef 198150H560383
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Grand Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Grand Vitara)
- 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 2021501039450 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 2021.