C road crash in North Devon EX31 on 17 July 1995 at 06:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in North Devon at 06:35 on Monday 17 July 1995. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1995
- Monday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11259, longitude -3.96656, 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
- 199550C210886
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 9 December 1992
45 m awayRef 199250C211155
Slight
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78 m awayRef 198150H560152
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 18 June 1986
103 m awayRef 198650C210553
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 14 December 2009
112 m awayRef 200950CB2L002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 11 June 2015
139 m awayRef 201550CB2L001
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 June 1999
219 m awayRef 199950C213461
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199550C210886 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 1995.