A377 crash in North Devon on 27 May 1997 at 14:55 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 14:55 on Tuesday 27 May 1997. The 78-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 1997
- Tuesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95689, longitude -3.9463, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750C241753
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 20 September 2006
85 m awayRef 200650C24L724
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the A377 in North Devon, 4 April 1994
122 m awayRef 199450C250369
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A377 in North Devon, 8 March 2014
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Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 10 August 2022
139 m awayRef 2022501207821
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Land Rover 90 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 15 July 2005
165 m awayRef 200550C24I592
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 12 October 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199750C241753 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 1997.