Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX39 on 1 May 2017 at 11:49 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Devon at 11:49 on Monday 1 May 2017. A 79-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2017
- Monday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01073, longitude -4.22319, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500242259
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Other
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 23 January 2022
6 m awayRef 2022501149613
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 11 September 2000
23 m awayRef 200050C414823
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 11 May 2014
23 m awayRef 201450CD3E007
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 6 February 1992
52 m awayRef 199250C410111
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Torridge, 7 May 1994
52 m awayRef 199450C410491
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 9 November 2019
55 m awayRef 2019500898836
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017500242259 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.