A361 crash in North Devon on 19 December 1995 at 20:15 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro and a Morris 440 van were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 20:15 on Tuesday 19 December 1995. The 35-year-old male driver of the Austin Metro was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1995
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Metro and Morris 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05934, longitude -3.97771, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550C211687
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2015.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A361 in North Devon, 11 September 2015
19 m awayRef 201550CB2N007
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 23 September 2007
41 m awayRef 200750C21N919
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A361 in North Devon, 16 January 2001
54 m awayRef 200150C210316
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A361 in North Devon, 29 November 2008
64 m awayRef 200850CB2N007
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 April 1996
112 m awayRef 199650C211233
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A361 in North Devon, 21 July 1990
180 m awayRef 199050C210746
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Morris 440
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
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 199550C211687 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.