A39 crash in North Devon on 29 January 2015 at 09:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 09:50 on Thursday 29 January 2015. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1923, longitude -3.9015, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CL2C001
- 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
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 39
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2018.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 25 September 2018
2 m awayRef 2018500800335
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 15 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019500923785
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A39 in North Devon, 23 October 2017
8 m awayRef 2017500235729
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 27 July 2003
14 m awayRef 200350C31J012
Serious
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 25 February 1989
14 m awayRef 198950C320227
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 10 June 1993
21 m awayRef 199350C320630
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201550CL2C001 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.