A377 crash in North Devon on 17 March 2015 at 06:35 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 06:35 on Tuesday 17 March 2015. The 21-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
- 17 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9494, longitude -3.92714, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CS3V001
- 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
- 377
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 37 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 1998.
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 29 June 1998
37 m awayRef 199850C243636
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A377 in North Devon, 31 May 1994
49 m awayRef 199450C250615
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 30 December 1985
81 m awayRef 198550C250607
Slight
Lorry crash on the A377 in North Devon, 12 May 2004
208 m awayRef 200450C21G142
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 9 January 1981
575 m awayRef 198150H560012
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on the A377 in North Devon, 29 November 2001
598 m awayRef 200150C257493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
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 201550CS3V001 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.