B3372 crash in the South Hams on 16 January 2001 at 20:13 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on the B3372 in the South Hams at 20:13 on Tuesday 16 January 2001. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2001
- Tuesday, 20:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41997, longitude -3.8367, in the TQ10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150F520354
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3372
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2020.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 20 May 2020
71 m awayRef 2020500956362
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 10 August 1983
94 m awayRef 198350F521581
Serious
Van crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 20 February 1981
112 m awayRef 198150G460117
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 5 November 1986
122 m awayRef 198650F521848
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 20 March 2013
131 m awayRef 201350JS2L004
Slight
Lorry crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 16 January 1979
136 m awayRef 197950G460031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 200150F520354 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 2001.