Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 16 July 2018 at 02:19 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 02:19 on Monday 16 July 2018. The 36-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2018
- Monday, 02:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08922, longitude -4.01344, 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
- 2018500324714
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2015.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 April 2015
16 m awayRef 201550CB2H003
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 9 April 1983
90 m awayRef 198350C210138
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 22 November 2018
94 m awayRef 2018500802676
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 19 November 1996
99 m awayRef 199650C213611
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 3 May 1981
99 m awayRef 198150H560184
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in North Devon, 8 October 1994
117 m awayRef 199450C211210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2018500324714 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.