Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 14 December 2009 at 11:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 11:40 on Monday 14 December 2009. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2009
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4331, longitude -3.6319, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950JS2F008
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 21 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198050G510762
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 13 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199750F512503
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 6 March 1982
10 m awayRef 198250G510180
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 27 March 1981
10 m awayRef 198150G510218
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 27 May 2002
14 m awayRef 200250F513158
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 29 March 2018
16 m awayRef 2018500283817
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200950JS2F008 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 2009.