A361 crash in North Devon on 13 November 2009 at 14:15 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt and a Daewoo Leganza were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 14:15 on Friday 13 November 2009. The 21-year-old female driver of the Mitsubishi Colt and the 37-year-old male driver of the Daewoo Leganza were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2009
- Friday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Colt and Daewoo Leganza
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09089, longitude -4.09394, 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
- 200950CN2C005
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 21 October 1983
22 m awayRef 198350C230514
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A361 in North Devon, 13 May 2007
28 m awayRef 200750C21F593
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 August 1980
41 m awayRef 198050H560382
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 1 August 1998
51 m awayRef 199850C214392
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 2 June 1983
85 m awayRef 198350C210261
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A361 in North Devon, 20 January 1999
86 m awayRef 199950C210573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Leganza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Leganza)
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 200950CN2C005 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 2009.