Serious unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 23 May 1990 at 09:50
A vehicle crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 09:50 on Wednesday 23 May 1990. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 1990
- Wednesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.32427, longitude -3.74191, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199050F550901
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 148 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2017.
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 6 September 2017
148 m awayRef 2017500225895
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 55 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 21 November 2001
198 m awayRef 200150F557780
Slight
Ford crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 28 February 1990
316 m awayRef 199050F550361
Slight
Volvo crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 13 October 2015
536 m awayRef 201550JK2O002
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 23 February 1992
539 m awayRef 199250F550256
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 3 December 1982
539 m awayRef 198250G481147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,770 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 199050F550901 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.