A361 crash in North Devon on 17 July 2009 at 16:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 16:55 on Friday 17 July 2009. The 36-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2009
- Friday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01215, longitude -3.75907, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950CS2E006
- 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
- 361
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2007.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 2 December 2007
42 m awayRef 200750C24O991
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A361 in North Devon, 13 July 2005
42 m awayRef 200550C24I549
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 October 2022
67 m awayRef 2022501280012
Slight
Lorry crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 June 1987
100 m awayRef 198750C242677
Serious
Lorry crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 January 1980
128 m awayRef 198050H570018
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 1 February 2009
157 m awayRef 200950CS2E003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200950CS2E006 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.