A385 crash in the South Hams on 11 February 2012 at 10:30 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A385 in the South Hams at 10:30 on Saturday 11 February 2012. The 60-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 205 and the 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2012
- Saturday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 205 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43344, longitude -3.68517, in the TQ9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Totnes, South Hams, TQ9 5QF 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
- 201250JS2P002
- 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
- 385
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2019.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 24 September 2019
2 m awayRef 2019500888278
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 1 October 1984
3 m awayRef 198450F512000
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 27 February 1987
3 m awayRef 198750F510381
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 18 October 1986
3 m awayRef 198650F511702
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 24 July 1999
3 m awayRef 199950F514459
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 5 November 2001
3 m awayRef 200150F517032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201250JS2P002 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.