A377 crash in North Devon on 23 September 2004 at 18:30 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A377 in North Devon at 18:30 on Thursday 23 September 2004. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 21-year-old female driver of the Toyota Celica were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2004
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Celica and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06016, longitude -4.05188, 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
- 200450C21N613
- 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
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 25 May 1988
54 m awayRef 198850C214539
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 17 October 1987
61 m awayRef 198750C213177
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 4 September 1988
117 m awayRef 198850C215036
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 10 January 1981
121 m awayRef 198150H560020
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A377 in North Devon, 16 January 1992
142 m awayRef 199250C210034
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 10 December 1996
142 m awayRef 199650C213904
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
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 200450C21N613 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 2004.