A39 crash in North Devon on 28 March 2013 at 19:47 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 19:47 on Thursday 28 March 2013. The 58-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2013
- Thursday, 19:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08544, longitude -4.06111, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. 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
- 201350CB2S004
- 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
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a fatal crash on 30 June 2009.
Fatal
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 30 June 2009
9 m awayRef 200950CB2S015
Slight
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 10 April 2022
11 m awayRef 2022501170826
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A39 in North Devon, 2 February 2009
11 m awayRef 200950CB2S001
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 July 1986
12 m awayRef 198650C210698
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A39 in North Devon, 3 April 2003
12 m awayRef 200350C21C845
Slight
Cupra Formentor crash on the A39 in North Devon, 14 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025501615928
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
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 201350CB2S004 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 2013.