Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 22 August 1989 at 12:10
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 12:10 on Tuesday 22 August 1989. A 72-year-old female passenger, a 49-year-old female passenger and a 78-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 1989
- Tuesday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4277, longitude -3.68108, in the TQ9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totnes.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198950F511773
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2009.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 78, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 198950F511773 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 1989.