A39 crash in North Devon on 19 September 2005 at 16:18 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 16:18 on Monday 19 September 2005. The 58-year-old female driver and a 57-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2005
- Monday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18735, longitude -3.89638, 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
- 200550C31M137
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2010.
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 20 December 2010
32 m awayRef 201050CL2C005
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 September 2017
112 m awayRef 2017500224900
Slight
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 16 January 2010
256 m awayRef 201050CL2C001
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A39 in North Devon, 10 September 2017
266 m awayRef 2017500225857
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A39 in North Devon, 11 August 2024
312 m awayRef 2024501479311
Slight
John Deere crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 March 2000
392 m awayRef 200050C321713
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200550C31M137 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.