A38 crash in the South Hams on 1 January 2004 at 22:11 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a car were involved in a crash on the A38 in the South Hams at 22:11 on Thursday 1 January 2004. The 71-year-old female driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 22:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38656, longitude -3.9336, in the PL21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ivybridge West, South Hams, PL21 9AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200450E53A144
- 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
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2023.
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Honda Jazz crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 15 June 2023
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Slight
Ford KA crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 10 May 2011
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Subaru Impreza crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 27 June 1997
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 15 November 2025
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Serious
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 11 June 2011
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 24 April 2016
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 200450E53A144 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 2004.