A386 crash in West Devon on 26 January 2000 at 13:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 13:30 on Wednesday 26 January 2000. The 62-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2000
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45762, longitude -4.10458, in the PL6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050E610238
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 May 1985
28 m awayRef 198550E610948
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 July 2013
29 m awayRef 201350JT2R011
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A386 in West Devon, 18 November 1997
32 m awayRef 199750E612893
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 1 March 2006
32 m awayRef 200650E61C539
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A386 in West Devon, 23 December 1999
36 m awayRef 199950E213245
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 April 1985
51 m awayRef 198550E610829
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200050E610238 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.