A386 crash in West Devon on 21 December 1986 at 16:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 16:45 on Sunday 21 December 1986. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49234, longitude -4.08787, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650E612643
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 November 2009
14 m awayRef 200950JT2R017
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in West Devon, 19 September 2024
19 m awayRef 2024501493563
Slight
Bus crash on the B3212 in Plymouth, 9 December 1992
20 m awayRef 199250E612906
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 October 1995
30 m awayRef 199550E612577
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 15 February 2000
45 m awayRef 200050E610579
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 November 2006
51 m awayRef 200650E61O565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198650E612643 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1986.