A381 crash in the South Hams on 24 December 2004 at 14:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A381 in the South Hams at 14:10 on Friday 24 December 2004. The 18-year-old female driver and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2004
- Friday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42395, longitude -3.69311, 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
- 200450F51S584
- 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
- Raining, 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 13 September 1985
32 m awayRef 198550F511818
Serious
Rover 2000 crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 28 November 1990
32 m awayRef 199050F512269
Slight
Bedford crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 28 January 2000
36 m awayRef 200050F510268
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 14 May 2005
50 m awayRef 200550F51F589
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 14 May 1996
61 m awayRef 199650F510903
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 16 January 2013
63 m awayRef 201350JS2P002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200450F51S584 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.