B3372 crash in the South Hams on 13 July 1996 at 09:30 involving a Saab 9000
A Saab 9000 and a Renault 21 were involved in a crash on the B3372 in the South Hams at 09:30 on Saturday 13 July 1996. The 30-year-old female driver of the Renault 21 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1996
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Saab 9000 and Renault 21
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42152, longitude -3.83417, in the TQ10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199650F521397
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3372
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 2 March 1983
20 m awayRef 198350F520392
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 2 January 1990
58 m awayRef 199050F520015
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 1 June 1980
70 m awayRef 198050G460414
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 24 December 1984
100 m awayRef 198450F522706
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 20 April 1993
104 m awayRef 199350F520907
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 20 March 2013
111 m awayRef 201350JS2L004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9000
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault 21)
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 199650F521397 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.