C road crash in North Devon EX32 on 8 May 2006 at 14:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in North Devon at 14:40 on Monday 8 May 2006. The 32-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
- 8 May 2006
- Monday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12886, longitude -3.915, 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
- 200650C21F482
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A399 in North Devon, 1 October 1992
30 m awayRef 199250C210894
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Suzuki crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 26 May 1992
30 m awayRef 199250C210470
Slight
Leyland crash on the A399 in North Devon, 3 August 1994
30 m awayRef 199450C210904
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A399 in North Devon, 2 May 2003
50 m awayRef 200350C21D943
Slight
MCC Smart crash on the A399 in North Devon, 16 December 2002
50 m awayRef 200250C218273
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A399 in North Devon, 22 September 2022
54 m awayRef 2022501222003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 200650C21F482 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.