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A396 crash in Mid Devon on 20 October 1992 at 07:00 involving a Rover Range Rover

A Rover Range Rover crashed on the A396 in Mid Devon at 07:00 on Tuesday 20 October 1992. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Oct 1992
Tuesday, 07:00
Vehicles
1
Rover Range Rover
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97449, longitude -3.48282, in the EX16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199250D411754
Council area
Mid Devon
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
396
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Range Rover

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    2,393 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Range Rover)

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 199250D411754 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1992.