Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX31 on 1 September 2018 at 22:01 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Devon at 22:01 on Saturday 1 September 2018. A 67-year-old female passenger in the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2018
- Saturday, 22:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08079, longitude -4.05835, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnstaple Central, North Devon, EX32 8HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500329627
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2024.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 18 March 2024
2 m awayRef 2024501423576
Serious
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9 m awayRef 199450C210956
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 17 October 1981
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 1 December 2007
11 m awayRef 200750C21O592
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 24 January 1989
12 m awayRef 198950C210074
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 4 September 1990
20 m awayRef 199050C210955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018500329627 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.