A384 crash in West Devon on 4 December 1998 at 22:10 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on the A384 in West Devon at 22:10 on Friday 4 December 1998. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1998
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.56508, longitude -4.18697, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199850E612932
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 384
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A384 in West Devon, 2 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198450E611793
Serious
Car crash on the A384 in West Devon, 28 August 1981
14 m awayRef 198150G530722
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B3362 in West Devon, 10 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199750E612292
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A384 in West Devon, 23 December 1987
64 m awayRef 198750E612360
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 9 December 2024
93 m awayRef 2024501527986
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A384 in West Devon, 14 March 2001
143 m awayRef 200150E611278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
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 199850E612932 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 1998.