A385 crash in the South Hams on 22 June 2010 at 12:28 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A385 in the South Hams at 12:28 on Tuesday 22 June 2010. The 76-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2010
- Tuesday, 12:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42951, longitude -3.64417, in the TQ9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marldon & Littlehempston, South Hams, TQ9 6PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050JS2F008
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2008.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 8 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200850JS2F009
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 3 December 2024
3 m awayRef 2024501524805
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 3 May 2016
4 m awayRef 2016500088616
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 7 January 2014
7 m awayRef 201450JS2F001
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 30 July 1984
10 m awayRef 198450F511427
Slight
Lexmoto Tempest 125 crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 19 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025501644236
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 201050JS2F008 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 2010.