A361 crash in North Devon on 13 May 2014 at 17:15 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Hyundai Santa Fe were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 17:15 on Tuesday 13 May 2014. The 36-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Santa Fe and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai Santa Fe were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2014
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai Santa Fe
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08223, longitude -4.07317, in the EX31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roundswell, North Devon, EX31 2FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450CB2S008
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2020.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in North Devon, 11 July 2020
47 m awayRef 2020500975691
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 March 2016
62 m awayRef 201650CB2S010
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 December 2010
162 m awayRef 201050CB2S025
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 November 1985
214 m awayRef 198550C210541
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 November 1979
242 m awayRef 197950H560558
Slight
Talbot Sunbeam crash on the A361 in North Devon, 17 October 1991
243 m awayRef 199150C211008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Santa Fe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Santa Fe)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Santa Fe)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201450CB2S008 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 2014.