A386 crash in West Devon on 6 November 2008 at 20:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 20:00 on Thursday 6 November 2008. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2008
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79958, longitude -4.05364, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850JO2C004
- 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
- 386
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1993.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A386 in West Devon, 15 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199350C511600
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 20 February 2008
28 m awayRef 200850C51B697
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 25 August 1999
36 m awayRef 199950C514951
Serious
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A386 in West Devon, 4 July 2020
43 m awayRef 2020500962484
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 10 October 2019
64 m awayRef 2019500894755
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 June 2005
67 m awayRef 200550C51H975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200850JO2C004 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 2008.