A386 crash in West Devon on 14 November 2009 at 00:22 involving a Mazda 121
A Mazda 121 crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 00:22 on Saturday 14 November 2009. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2009
- Saturday, 00:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 121
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74823, longitude -4.02786, 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
- 200950JO2G005
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 2025.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A386 in West Devon, 31 December 2025
10 m awayRef 2025501689851
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in West Devon, 3 August 2010
32 m awayRef 201050JO2G005
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 25 October 1995
32 m awayRef 199550C511441
Slight
Scania crash on the A386 in West Devon, 27 July 2021
40 m awayRef 2021501085597
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A386 in West Devon, 25 November 2005
41 m awayRef 200550C51P487
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 9 September 1984
45 m awayRef 198450C510445
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 121
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 121)
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 200950JO2G005 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 2009.