Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 5 July 2023 at 17:27 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 17:27 on Wednesday 5 July 2023. The 56-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2023
- Wednesday, 17:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07279, longitude -4.03855, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, North Devon, EX32 8NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023501326334
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A361 in North Devon, 8 April 2006
58 m awayRef 200650C21E156
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in North Devon, 26 November 1994
66 m awayRef 199450C211446
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 9 January 1985
120 m awayRef 198550C210012
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 October 2002
122 m awayRef 200250C217056
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 September 2002
125 m awayRef 200250C216016
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in North Devon, 20 November 1991
128 m awayRef 199150C211146
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023501326334 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 2023.