A386 crash in West Devon on 3 August 2000 at 01:30 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 01:30 on Thursday 3 August 2000. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.48089, longitude -4.0911, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050E612086
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 7 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200650E61P586
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 4 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198350E611709
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A386 in West Devon, 26 August 1990
41 m awayRef 199050E611728
Fatal
Peugeot 309 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 28 October 1991
50 m awayRef 199150E612444
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 30 November 1987
57 m awayRef 198750E612175
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 5 June 1987
58 m awayRef 198750E611021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 200050E612086 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.