A3079 crash in West Devon on 31 October 2023 at 13:50 involving a Mercedes GLC Class
A Mercedes GLC Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A3079 in West Devon at 13:50 on Tuesday 31 October 2023. The 39-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2023
- Tuesday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes GLC Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74958, longitude -4.16838, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501371210
- 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
- 3079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A3079 in Torridge, 10 August 2006
14 m awayRef 200650C42J829
Serious
Car crash on the B3218 in Torridge, 7 March 1980
31 m awayRef 198050H260081
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 4 April 1991
31 m awayRef 199150C510292
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 10 March 2023
64 m awayRef 2023501285553
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 11 November 2003
81 m awayRef 200350C52N832
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 20 January 2009
111 m awayRef 200950JO3B001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2023501371210 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 2023.