A38 crash in the South Hams on 8 August 2012 at 07:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 07:25 on Wednesday 8 August 2012. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38507, longitude -3.95576, in the PL21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ermington & Ugborough, South Hams, PL21 9GP 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
- 201250JI2C006
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 July 2013.
Fatal
Renault Scenic crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 14 July 2013
4 m awayRef 201350JI2C004
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 23 March 1987
12 m awayRef 198750E530513
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 25 May 1999
15 m awayRef 199950E531330
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 28 February 2001
19 m awayRef 200150E531271
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 15 November 2005
31 m awayRef 200550E53O984
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 28 July 2002
41 m awayRef 200250E514585
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201250JI2C006 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.