A39 crash in North Devon on 28 September 2001 at 22:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 22:50 on Friday 28 September 2001. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2001
- Friday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06256, longitude -4.08895, 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
- 200150C216009
- 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
- 39
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 January 2002
22 m awayRef 200250C211008
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 13 July 1979
36 m awayRef 197950H560279
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 29 August 1993
40 m awayRef 199350C211062
Slight
Enfield Bullet crash on the A39 in North Devon, 7 September 2006
70 m awayRef 200650C21L425
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 December 1994
71 m awayRef 199450C211604
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A39 in North Devon, 4 October 2017
72 m awayRef 2017500232686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,106 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200150C216009 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 2001.