A361 crash in North Devon on 3 February 2018 at 07:18 involving a Volvo V70
A Volvo V70 crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 07:18 on Saturday 3 February 2018. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2018
- Saturday, 07:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V70
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09569, longitude -4.14213, 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
- 2018500273044
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in North Devon, 21 December 2024
50 m awayRef 2024501534341
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A361 in North Devon, 4 July 2001
104 m awayRef 200150C234156
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 17 May 1988
118 m awayRef 198850C234500
Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 May 2014
178 m awayRef 201450CN2C005
Fatal
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 6 February 1987
201 m awayRef 198750C232094
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A361 in North Devon, 6 October 2020
205 m awayRef 2020500990991
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,435 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V70)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2018500273044 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 2018.