A30 crash in West Devon on 18 July 2006 at 18:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 18:40 on Tuesday 18 July 2006. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2006
- Tuesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66785, longitude -4.25196, in the PL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200650C53I637
- 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
- 30
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2001.
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 20 August 2001
41 m awayRef 200150C535062
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A30 in Torridge, 21 August 2010
190 m awayRef 201050CH3F002
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A30 in West Devon, 16 July 2012
209 m awayRef 201250JT3G002
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A30 in Torridge, 27 June 2016
302 m awayRef 2016500100358
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in West Devon, 31 October 1995
329 m awayRef 199550C531460
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A30 in Torridge, 2 June 2017
344 m awayRef 2017500190210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200650C53I637 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 2006.