A384 crash in the South Hams on 1 September 1989 at 09:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A384 in the South Hams at 09:40 on Friday 1 September 1989. The 40-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 1989
- Friday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46114, longitude -3.73144, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198950F511886
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 384
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 May 2018.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 6 May 2018
15 m awayRef 2018500293551
Serious
Car crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 9 March 1989
20 m awayRef 198950F510409
Slight
Car crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 1 August 1980
20 m awayRef 198050G510623
Slight
Car crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 5 December 1985
20 m awayRef 198550F512467
Slight
Car crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 21 April 1986
20 m awayRef 198650F510513
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 13 August 2020
34 m awayRef 2020500975614
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, 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 198950F511886 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.