A377 crash in North Devon on 24 December 2006 at 10:28 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 10:28 on Sunday 24 December 2006. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2006
- Sunday, 10:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02529, longitude -4.0355, 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
- 200650C21A005
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2019.
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A377 in North Devon, 14 August 2019
14 m awayRef 2019500873333
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 7 October 2022
19 m awayRef 2022501266814
Slight
Kawasaki ZX636 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 13 April 2009
20 m awayRef 200950CB2E006
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A377 in North Devon, 2 August 2008
30 m awayRef 200850CB2E004
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 20 February 1998
170 m awayRef 199850C311008
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in North Devon, 22 November 1982
178 m awayRef 198250C210548
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200650C21A005 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 2006.