A381 crash in the South Hams on 22 July 2005 at 10:44 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the A381 in the South Hams at 10:44 on Friday 22 July 2005. The 77-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2005
- Friday, 10:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.23722, longitude -3.77806, in the TQ8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Salcombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Salcombe & Thurlestone, South Hams, TQ8 8BG 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
- 200550F54J067
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2012.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 5 May 2012
7 m awayRef 201250JK2H003
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 12 June 1981
10 m awayRef 198150G480442
Serious
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 15 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198250G480738
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 15 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199650F541134
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 28 July 1996
22 m awayRef 199650F541431
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in the South Hams, 7 January 1998
82 m awayRef 199850F540165
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 200550F54J067 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 2005.