Serious A3123 crash in North Devon on 7 February 2023 at 11:10 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on the A3123 in North Devon at 11:10 on Tuesday 7 February 2023. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Feb 2023
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17751, longitude -4.1119, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501274902
- Council area
- North 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
- 3123
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 September 2025.
Serious
Jaguar S Type crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 4 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025501637496
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 13 January 2022
10 m awayRef 2022501137477
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 8 March 2006
18 m awayRef 200650C31C933
Serious
Car crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 22 November 2013
18 m awayRef 201350CI2C007
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A3123 in North Devon, 4 December 1996
26 m awayRef 199650C313825
Slight
Car crash on the B3343 in North Devon, 8 February 1981
35 m awayRef 198150H580060
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2023501274902 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 2023.