A39 crash in North Devon on 24 December 1994 at 05:45 involving a Mitsubishi Galant
A Mitsubishi Galant crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 05:45 on Saturday 24 December 1994. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1994
- Saturday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Galant
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10392, longitude -4.02647, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199450C211595
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1996.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 7 February 1996
20 m awayRef 199650C210459
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A39 in North Devon, 12 January 1991
20 m awayRef 199150C210027
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A39 in North Devon, 11 May 1984
45 m awayRef 198450C210192
Serious
Piaggio PX125 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 9 July 2003
50 m awayRef 200350C21I041
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 October 2022
56 m awayRef 2022501236375
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 26 May 1987
106 m awayRef 198750C212510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Galant
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Galant)
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 199450C211595 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 1994.