Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX34 on 7 November 2018 at 01:05 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 01:05 on Wednesday 7 November 2018. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19631, longitude -4.02595, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Combe Martin.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500801888
- 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 with 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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 1995.
Slight
Land Rover crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 25 May 1995
47 m awayRef 199550C310642
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Mercedes SLK Class crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 February 2019
64 m awayRef 2019500821499
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 26 September 2007
103 m awayRef 200750C31M251
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 4 October 1988
136 m awayRef 198850C315188
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Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 26 September 2004
136 m awayRef 200450C31N717
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 11 April 1988
158 m awayRef 198850C314367
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2018500801888 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.