A39 crash in North Devon on 10 September 2017 at 07:43 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 07:43 on Sunday 10 September 2017. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2017
- Sunday, 07:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18966, longitude -3.89511, 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
- 2017500225857
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2010.
Slight
Van crash on the A39 in North Devon, 16 January 2010
9 m awayRef 201050CL2C001
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A39 in North Devon, 11 August 2024
68 m awayRef 2024501479311
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 19 September 2005
266 m awayRef 200550C31M137
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 20 December 2010
291 m awayRef 201050CL2C005
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 21 May 2002
345 m awayRef 200250C322984
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 September 2017
356 m awayRef 2017500224900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2017500225857 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 2017.