A38 crash in the South Hams on 21 March 2011 at 04:41 involving a Volvo C 30
A Volvo C 30 crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 04:41 on Monday 21 March 2011. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2011
- Monday, 04:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo C 30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45157, longitude -3.79082, in the TQ11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Brent, South Hams, TQ11 0LY 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
- 201150JA2E002
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 April 2005.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 2 April 2005
6 m awayRef 200550F45E127
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 20 May 2006
8 m awayRef 200650F52F910
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 22 May 1996
15 m awayRef 199650F450986
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 13 January 2017
25 m awayRef 2017500155678
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 10 February 1987
28 m awayRef 198750F520234
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 4 September 2023
29 m awayRef 2023501348220
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo C 30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo C 30)
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 201150JA2E002 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 2011.