A361 crash in Mid Devon on 4 April 1998 at 13:19 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird crashed on the A361 in Mid Devon at 13:19 on Saturday 4 April 1998. A 1-year-old male passenger, the 27-year-old female driver and a 27-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1998
- Saturday, 13:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96099, longitude -3.61923, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850D411850
- Council area
- Mid 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A361 in North Devon, 17 May 1995
30 m awayRef 199550C250602
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 29 December 2007
102 m awayRef 200750D41P939
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 29 December 2007
140 m awayRef 200750D41P941
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 1 June 2019
163 m awayRef 2019500849293
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A361 in North Devon, 12 April 2022
177 m awayRef 2022501190648
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A361 in North Devon, 10 February 2001
220 m awayRef 200150C250861
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199850D411850 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1998.