B3372 crash in the South Hams on 2 January 1990 at 13:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and two Ford Fiestas were involved in a crash on the B3372 in the South Hams at 13:30 on Tuesday 2 January 1990. The 28-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 and the 60-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 1990
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4218, longitude -3.83348, in the TQ10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050F520015
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3372
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 2 March 1983
42 m awayRef 198350F520392
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 24 December 1984
42 m awayRef 198450F522706
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 20 April 1993
50 m awayRef 199350F520907
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 13 July 1996
58 m awayRef 199650F521397
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 1 December 2009
89 m awayRef 200950JS2L017
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 29 August 1991
100 m awayRef 199150F521621
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199050F520015 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 1990.