A39 crash in North Devon on 5 November 2008 at 10:53
Two vehicles were involved in a crash on the A39 in North Devon at 10:53 on Wednesday 5 November 2008. The 56-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2008
- Wednesday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08901, longitude -4.04801, in the EX31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnstaple with Pilton, North Devon, EX31 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CB2S015
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Dry
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, 157 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2011.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 August 2011
157 m awayRef 201150CB2S009
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 July 2004
198 m awayRef 200450C21K108
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 March 1996
273 m awayRef 199650C210799
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 9 November 1997
313 m awayRef 199750C214238
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A39 in North Devon, 2 November 2006
326 m awayRef 200650C21O092
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 17 August 2005
340 m awayRef 200550C21K523
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 200850CB2S015 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 2008.