Serious A381 crash in the South Hams on 23 March 1987 at 10:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the A381 in the South Hams at 10:50 on Monday 23 March 1987. The 48-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 1987
- Monday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.24177, longitude -3.78504, in the TQ8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750F540456
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 381
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 February 1999.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 23 February 1999
63 m awayRef 199950F541147
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 5 February 2014
72 m awayRef 201450JK2G002
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 24 May 2019
90 m awayRef 2019500847072
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 10 April 1981
95 m awayRef 198150G480246
Serious
Minibus crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 22 June 1981
98 m awayRef 198150G480486
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 29 May 2006
149 m awayRef 200650F54G376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198750F540456 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1987.