A39 crash in North Devon on 27 June 2002 at 12:04 involving a car
A car crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 12:04 on Thursday 27 June 2002. The 36-year-old male driver, a 29-year-old female passenger and a 4-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jun 2002
- Thursday, 12:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23034, longitude -3.82854, in the EX35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250C324094
- 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
- 30 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 1998.
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the A39 in North Devon, 22 November 1998
20 m awayRef 199850C327358
Slight
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 13 October 1982
28 m awayRef 198250C320471
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 1 August 1992
30 m awayRef 199250C320651
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 August 1996
30 m awayRef 199650C322793
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on the A39 in North Devon, 14 April 1995
50 m awayRef 199550C320456
Slight
Yamaha YP 250 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 15 March 2002
57 m awayRef 200250C321604
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,468 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200250C324094 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 2002.