A386 crash in West Devon on 24 December 2011 at 12:15 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 12:15 on Saturday 24 December 2011. The 72-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
- 24 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81178, longitude -4.06229, 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
- 201150JO2C011
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2025.
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Harley-Davidson XL crash on the A386 in West Devon, 8 September 2025
48 m awayRef 2025501638991
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Bedford Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 2 March 1995
216 m awayRef 199550C510245
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A386 in West Devon, 1 February 2017
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Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 18 September 1979
306 m awayRef 197950H260436
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Toyota Aygo crash on the A386 in West Devon, 1 February 2022
315 m awayRef 2022501168795
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A386 in West Devon, 9 April 2013
315 m awayRef 201350JO2C003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
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 201150JO2C011 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 2011.