Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ6 on 23 December 2012 at 23:15 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 23:15 on Sunday 23 December 2012. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34922, longitude -3.59082, in the TQ6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dartmouth & East Dart, South Hams, TQ6 9EW 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
- 201250JH2H012
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 May 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 7 May 1985
2 m awayRef 198550F530768
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 1 March 2018
9 m awayRef 2018500279542
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the South Hams, 15 August 1995
33 m awayRef 199550F531577
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 9 June 1981
43 m awayRef 198150G490432
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 24 June 1979
45 m awayRef 197950G490503
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 30 September 2009
60 m awayRef 200950JH2H012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)
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 201250JH2H012 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 2012.