A385 crash in West Devon on 10 November 2009 at 09:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A385 in West Devon at 09:50 on Tuesday 10 November 2009. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 54-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2009
- Tuesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55145, longitude -4.13798, in the PL19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tavistock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tavistock North, West Devon, PL19 0LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950JT2B033
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 385
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 November 2014
38 m awayRef 201450JT2V003
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 5 May 1998
41 m awayRef 199850E610982
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in the South Hams, 28 July 2016
42 m awayRef 2016500100314
Slight
Suzuki Grand Vitara crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 January 2024
43 m awayRef 2024501409431
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 December 2004
50 m awayRef 200450E61R407
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 14 July 2018
66 m awayRef 2018500316982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200950JT2B033 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.