A386 crash in West Devon on 21 January 2004 at 23:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 23:30 on Wednesday 21 January 2004. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2004
- Wednesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85135, longitude -4.066, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450C51A895
- 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
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 12 March 2010
51 m awayRef 201050JO2B002
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 August 1998
73 m awayRef 199850C514903
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 September 2015
241 m awayRef 201550JO2C001
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A386 in West Devon, 2 December 2012
457 m awayRef 201250JO2B001
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A386 in Torridge, 19 September 2004
522 m awayRef 200450C41N483
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 5 September 1996
576 m awayRef 199650C512722
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200450C51A895 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 2004.