A386 crash in West Devon on 1 January 2012 at 01:25 involving a Rover Mini
A Rover Mini crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 01:25 on Sunday 1 January 2012. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.57488, longitude -4.11701, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JT2N001
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2015.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A386 in West Devon, 26 June 2015
36 m awayRef 201550JT2B012
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 27 October 1987
40 m awayRef 198750E611929
Serious
Nissan Patrol crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 31 January 1991
63 m awayRef 199150E610256
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 15 August 1986
63 m awayRef 198650E611571
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 8 December 1985
85 m awayRef 198550E612443
Slight
HGV crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 May 2004
127 m awayRef 200450E61G667
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
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 201250JT2N001 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 2012.