A386 crash in West Devon on 23 August 2000 at 00:10 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 00:10 on Wednesday 23 August 2000. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2000
- Wednesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76668, longitude -4.02227, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050C512283
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 1998.
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on the A386 in West Devon, 3 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199850C514512
Serious
Lorry crash on the A386 in West Devon, 23 July 1980
51 m awayRef 198050H260318
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 May 1993
73 m awayRef 199350C510467
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 May 2008
91 m awayRef 200850JO2G002
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 July 1980
162 m awayRef 198050H260277
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 31 July 1982
171 m awayRef 198250C510308
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
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 200050C512283 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 2000.