A377 crash in North Devon on 26 December 2022 at 20:41 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the A377 in North Devon at 20:41 on Monday 26 December 2022. The 37-year-old female driver of the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2022
- Monday, 20:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95572, longitude -3.96108, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022501257542
- 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
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 April 2019.
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A377 in Torridge, 23 April 2019
2 m awayRef 2019500836972
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A377 in Torridge, 9 March 2008
3 m awayRef 200850C43C160
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A377 in Torridge, 5 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023501350857
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A377 in North Devon, 16 June 1999
9 m awayRef 199950C253316
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 22 July 1988
9 m awayRef 198850C244825
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A377 in North Devon, 18 September 2011
10 m awayRef 201150CS3V001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022501257542 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 2022.