Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 1 December 2018 at 22:59 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 22:59 on Saturday 1 December 2018. The 46-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 22:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09949, longitude -4.15274, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500803205
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 1980.
Serious
Bus crash on the A361 in North Devon, 21 April 1980
28 m awayRef 198050H560150
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 November 2013
33 m awayRef 201350CN2B026
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 9 April 1995
52 m awayRef 199550C230404
Slight
Honda MTX125RW crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 20 February 1996
52 m awayRef 199650C230790
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 March 1995
56 m awayRef 199550C230335
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 January 1995
57 m awayRef 199550C230103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018500803205 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.