A3122 crash in the South Hams on 1 June 2000 at 22:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A3122 in the South Hams at 22:45 on Thursday 1 June 2000. A 67-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 2000
- Thursday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35872, longitude -3.64425, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050F531399
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3122
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1998.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 19 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199850F536497
Serious
Car crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 9 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199550F531765
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 27 July 1995
20 m awayRef 199550F531402
Slight
Car crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 25 March 1984
22 m awayRef 198450F530463
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 21 January 2012
23 m awayRef 201250JH2E002
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 31 July 2015
27 m awayRef 201550JH2E002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200050F531399 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 2000.