A399 crash in North Devon on 1 April 2012 at 01:50 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica crashed on the A399 in North Devon at 01:50 on Sunday 1 April 2012. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 01:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12694, longitude -3.91536, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CB2L002
- 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
- 399
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 11 December 1983
11 m awayRef 198350C210590
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A399 in North Devon, 16 August 2025
26 m awayRef 2025501629502
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A399 in North Devon, 15 June 2011
27 m awayRef 201150CB2L003
Slight
Mitsubishi L200 crash on the A399 in North Devon, 10 November 1995
27 m awayRef 199550C211506
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 19 May 1992
53 m awayRef 199250C210421
Serious
Fiat Mirafiori crash on the A399 in West Devon, 28 October 1994
56 m awayRef 199450C531363
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
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 201250CB2L002 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.