Serious unclassified road crash in North Devon EX33 on 30 April 2005 at 10:10 involving a Peugeot 407
A Peugeot 407 and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Devon at 10:10 on Saturday 30 April 2005. The 5-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2005
- Saturday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 407 and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1129, longitude -4.15508, in the EX33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braunton.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C23F047
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 25 May 1985
54 m awayRef 198550C230170
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 21 August 1982
121 m awayRef 198250C230358
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 30 September 1979
253 m awayRef 197950H560456
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 October 1991
297 m awayRef 199150C231032
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 30 October 2003
309 m awayRef 200350C23Q459
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 28 October 1999
326 m awayRef 199950C236296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 407
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 5, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 200550C23F047 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 2005.