A399 crash in North Devon on 24 September 2013 at 17:14 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy crashed on the A399 in North Devon at 17:14 on Tuesday 24 September 2013. The 52-year-old male driver 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
- 24 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 17:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10461, longitude -3.88335, 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
- 201350CS2A002
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A399 in North Devon, 26 December 2012
4 m awayRef 201250CS2A002
Serious
Mercedes Gle Class crash on the A399 in North Devon, 18 September 2022
5 m awayRef 2022501222396
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A399 in North Devon, 28 August 2021
17 m awayRef 2021501090718
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A399 in North Devon, 21 August 2010
239 m awayRef 201050CS2A002
Slight
Citroen Synergie crash on the A399 in North Devon, 27 May 2000
304 m awayRef 200050C212641
Slight
Cupra Born crash on the A399 in North Devon, 6 December 2025
326 m awayRef 2025501678989
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
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 201350CS2A002 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.