A377 crash in North Devon on 17 July 2007 at 16:25 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a Volvo 440 were involved in a crash on the A377 in North Devon at 16:25 on Tuesday 17 July 2007. The 61-year-old female driver of the Mercedes ML Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2007
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and Volvo 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90072, longitude -3.88002, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750C25I528
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 19 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200650C25N117
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 27 August 2011
29 m awayRef 201150KC5F004
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 27 April 2012
32 m awayRef 201250KC5F002
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 13 May 2015
40 m awayRef 201550KC5F006
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 24 August 2018
84 m awayRef 2018500800022
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 26 March 1990
108 m awayRef 199050C250275
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes ML Class)
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 200750C25I528 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 2007.