C road crash in the South Hams PL7 on 26 July 1995 at 15:20 involving an Austin Morris Mini
An Austin Morris Mini crashed on a C road in the South Hams at 15:20 on Wednesday 26 July 1995. A 22-year-old male passenger and a 52-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1995
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43835, longitude -4.07423, in the PL7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550E611759
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199550E611759 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.