Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ7 on 30 May 2004 at 02:45 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 02:45 on Sunday 30 May 2004. The 21-year-old male driver of the Rover Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2004
- Sunday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.28152, longitude -3.77466, in the TQ7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsbridge, South Hams, TQ7 1PH 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
- 200450F55G993
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 7 November 2014
27 m awayRef 201450JK2A008
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 27 April 2000
32 m awayRef 200050F551218
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 4 December 1985
32 m awayRef 198550F552435
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 7 March 2009
32 m awayRef 200950JK2A005
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 14 July 1992
41 m awayRef 199250F551131
Slight
MG TF crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 4 August 2003
54 m awayRef 200350F55N438
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
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 200450F55G993 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.