C road crash in the South Hams PL7 on 10 December 1996 at 07:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A taxi and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in the South Hams at 07:50 on Tuesday 10 December 1996. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1996
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39051, longitude -3.98632, in the PL7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199650E513172
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 2 December 2007
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 27 July 1985
121 m awayRef 198550E511439
Slight
Nissan NV200 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 14 October 2025
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 21 September 1988
172 m awayRef 198850E531835
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 10 November 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199650E513172 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 1996.