C road crash in West Devon PL20 on 2 May 1995 at 12:15 involving a Fiat 126
A Fiat 126 crashed on a C road in West Devon at 12:15 on Tuesday 2 May 1995. A 17-year-old female passenger and the 18-year-old female driver were 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
- 2 May 1995
- Tuesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 126
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46923, longitude -4.08756, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550E611034
- Council area
- West Devon
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 1 November 1986
177 m awayRef 198650E612207
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 16 July 1989
212 m awayRef 198950E611338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 23 June 2021
244 m awayRef 2021501072596
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in West Devon, 5 December 1996
255 m awayRef 199650E612960
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 15 July 1985
269 m awayRef 198550E611328
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 23 January 1987
273 m awayRef 198750E610115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 126
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 704 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 126)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 126)
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 199550E611034 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1995.