Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 8 April 2015 at 09:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 09:35 on Wednesday 8 April 2015. The 23-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
- 8 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10296, longitude -3.99554, 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
- 201550CB2H002
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 September 1980.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 5 September 1980
26 m awayRef 198050H560446
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 14 April 1988
82 m awayRef 198850C214381
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 4 December 2022
132 m awayRef 2022501276012
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 13 October 1983
171 m awayRef 198350C210504
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in North Devon, 21 October 1990
185 m awayRef 199050C211121
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 11 October 1997
185 m awayRef 199750C213712
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 201550CB2H002 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 2015.