Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 1 June 2015 at 08:56 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 08:56 on Monday 1 June 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 2015
- Monday, 08:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09923, longitude -4.15163, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CN2B006
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2015.
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A361 in North Devon, 15 January 2015
26 m awayRef 201550CN2B001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 June 2024
34 m awayRef 2024501461420
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 December 2011
42 m awayRef 201150CN2B017
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 November 2013
49 m awayRef 201350CN2B026
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 12 April 1991
51 m awayRef 199150C230314
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 9 December 2002
51 m awayRef 200250C238269
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201550CN2B006 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.