A361 crash in North Devon on 15 April 2015 at 21:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 21:30 on Wednesday 15 April 2015. The 47-year-old female driver and a 72-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13417, longitude -4.15264, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CN2F001
- 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
- 361
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2025.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 October 2025
22 m awayRef 2025501662017
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 11 June 1980
43 m awayRef 198050H560220
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 December 2001
58 m awayRef 200150C237938
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A361 in North Devon, 16 October 1993
60 m awayRef 199350C231333
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 January 2006
60 m awayRef 200650C23A397
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 2 May 2001
80 m awayRef 200150C232610
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201550CN2F001 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.