A39 crash in North Devon on 21 May 2024 at 18:35 involving a Peugeot 3008
A Peugeot 3008 and a car were involved in a crash on the A39 in North Devon at 18:35 on Tuesday 21 May 2024. The 49-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2024
- Tuesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 3008 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06252, longitude -4.09315, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024501445760
- 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
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A39 in North Devon, 22 July 2009
13 m awayRef 200950CB2R007
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in North Devon, 1 May 2003
49 m awayRef 200350C21H532
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 14 October 1980
76 m awayRef 198050H560517
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 6 October 2015
114 m awayRef 201550CB3C007
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 June 2007
185 m awayRef 200750C21G986
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 3 March 1979
190 m awayRef 197950H610079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024501445760 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 2024.