A386 crash in West Devon on 27 February 2001 at 11:53 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 11:53 on Tuesday 27 February 2001. The 59-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2001
- Tuesday, 11:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47897, longitude -4.09242, 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
- 200150E610482
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199950E610133
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200950JT2R008
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200550E61P260
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200150E612935
Serious
Triumph crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 July 2021
1 m awayRef 2021501082709
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 October 1980
10 m awayRef 198050G530838
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200150E610482 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 2001.