A361 crash in North Devon on 14 May 2012 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 18:30 on Monday 14 May 2012. The 45-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2012
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06432, longitude -4.04833, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, North Devon, EX32 9EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CB2J003
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dry
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 3 October 2014
6 m awayRef 201450CB2J011
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 7 November 2023
6 m awayRef 2023501371760
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 July 2014
11 m awayRef 201450CB2J007
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in North Devon, 26 July 2022
19 m awayRef 2022501203078
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 2 December 1995
20 m awayRef 199550C211585
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A39 in North Devon, 5 September 1997
22 m awayRef 199750C313060
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 201250CB2J003 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 2012.