Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX16 on 23 January 2005 at 02:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 02:20 on Sunday 23 January 2005. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2005
- Sunday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96744, longitude -3.66822, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C25A797
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 170 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 November 2000.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 13 November 2000
170 m awayRef 200050C256264
Serious
Car crash on the B3221 in North Devon, 24 November 1985
881 m awayRef 198550C240610
Slight
Car crash on the B3221 in North Devon, 11 October 1987
1.0 km awayRef 198750C253144
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 7 October 1999
1.5 km awayRef 199950C255954
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 27 August 1988
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Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 27 September 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200550C25A797 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.