A381 crash in the South Hams on 3 June 2002 at 07:48 involving a Ford Transit
A Ford Transit and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A381 in the South Hams at 07:48 on Monday 3 June 2002. The 59-year-old female driver of the Ford Transit was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jun 2002
- Monday, 07:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44606, longitude -3.56545, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Preston, Torbay, TQ3 2EY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250F513274
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2011.
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 10 June 2011
45 m awayRef 201150FP2A013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 23 June 1980
50 m awayRef 198050K710778
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 9 April 1985
58 m awayRef 198550F210598
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 1 November 2005
82 m awayRef 200550F21O149
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 16 October 2007
82 m awayRef 200750F21P237
Serious
Volkswagen crash on a C road in Torbay, 11 January 2002
85 m awayRef 200250F210211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 200250F513274 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 2002.