A361 crash in North Devon on 16 November 2000 at 09:10 involving a Suzuki Samurai
A Suzuki Samurai crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 09:10 on Thursday 16 November 2000. An 8-year-old male passenger 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
- 16 Nov 2000
- Thursday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Samurai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0471, longitude -3.87139, 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
- 200050C246263
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 256 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 2021.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 September 2021
256 m awayRef 2021501101377
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 September 1996
269 m awayRef 199650C242917
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A361 in North Devon, 13 June 2011
365 m awayRef 201150CS2C005
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 August 1989
457 m awayRef 198950C240925
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 1 January 1990
465 m awayRef 199050C240002
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 23 May 1995
500 m awayRef 199550C240628
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Samurai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Samurai)
- 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 200050C246263 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 2000.