A399 crash in North Devon on 23 March 2025 at 01:05 involving a Citroen C4 taxi
A Citroen C4 taxi crashed on the A399 in North Devon at 01:05 on Sunday 23 March 2025. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2025
- Sunday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20721, longitude -4.06257, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501568183
- 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
- 399
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2014.
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A399 in North Devon, 27 September 2014
14 m awayRef 201450CI2E002
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A399 in North Devon, 16 June 2012
30 m awayRef 201250CI2E004
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A399 in North Devon, 8 September 2016
37 m awayRef 2016500127171
Serious
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 7 August 1986
50 m awayRef 198650C310805
Slight
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 16 January 2012
52 m awayRef 201250CI2E001
Slight
Honda crash on the A399 in North Devon, 9 July 2015
52 m awayRef 201550CI2E006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025501568183 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 2025.