A399 crash in North Devon on 6 January 2015 at 11:36 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A399 in North Devon at 11:36 on Tuesday 6 January 2015. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 11:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10644, longitude -3.88855, 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
- 201550CS2A002
- 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
- 399
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 December 1984.
Fatal
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 5 December 1984
18 m awayRef 198450C210595
Slight
Cupra Born crash on the A399 in North Devon, 6 December 2025
102 m awayRef 2025501678989
Slight
Citroen Synergie crash on the A399 in North Devon, 27 May 2000
129 m awayRef 200050C212641
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A399 in North Devon, 28 August 2021
403 m awayRef 2021501090718
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A399 in North Devon, 26 December 2012
416 m awayRef 201250CS2A002
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on the A399 in North Devon, 24 September 2013
417 m awayRef 201350CS2A002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 201550CS2A002 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.