C road crash in the South Hams PL21 on 24 June 1995 at 16:08 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on a C road in the South Hams at 16:08 on Saturday 24 June 1995. The 70-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
- 24 Jun 1995
- Saturday, 16:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40662, longitude -3.95364, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550E531476
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 199550E531476 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 1995.