A38 crash in the South Hams on 19 October 2012 at 15:03 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A38 in the South Hams at 15:03 on Friday 19 October 2012. The 62-year-old male driver of the Honda Jazz 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
- 19 Oct 2012
- Friday, 15:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4915, longitude -3.76657, in the TQ11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JS2C006
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 2004.
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 12 January 2004
25 m awayRef 200450F45A352
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 19 August 1995
83 m awayRef 199550F451593
Slight
Lorry crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 23 December 1987
101 m awayRef 198750F452386
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 5 April 2009
114 m awayRef 200950JS2C001
Slight
Suzuki AY 50 crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 8 November 2003
146 m awayRef 200350F51R063
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 23 October 2004
216 m awayRef 200450F51S491
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
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 201250JS2C006 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.