A381 crash in the South Hams on 14 January 2001 at 11:25 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A381 in the South Hams at 11:25 on Sunday 14 January 2001. The 41-year-old male driver 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
- 14 Jan 2001
- Sunday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34191, longitude -3.73699, 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
- 200150F550277
- 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
- 381
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 7 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200150F553429
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 22 November 1985
20 m awayRef 198550F552302
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 11 July 1992
108 m awayRef 199250F521152
Serious
Lorry crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 21 March 1986
156 m awayRef 198650F550343
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 11 January 2008
164 m awayRef 200850F55A222
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 5 July 2019
275 m awayRef 2019500866503
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 200150F550277 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.