Serious A361 crash in Mid Devon on 14 November 2014 at 09:25 involving a Ford Transit lorry
Two cars and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on the A361 in Mid Devon at 09:25 on Friday 14 November 2014. The 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 59-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit lorry were seriously injured and the 53-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Nov 2014
- Friday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94108, longitude -3.57992, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450KT2P002
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 10 April 1996
18 m awayRef 199650C251026
Serious
Reliant Robin crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 18 January 1996
33 m awayRef 199650D410250
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 23 December 1989
33 m awayRef 198950D412282
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 24 September 1990
40 m awayRef 199050D411863
Slight
Car crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 26 July 1986
95 m awayRef 198650D411340
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 11 December 2000
132 m awayRef 200050D416918
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 59, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 3 (Ford Transit)
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 201450KT2P002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2014.