A38 crash in the South Hams on 15 December 2013 at 09:50 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 09:50 on Sunday 15 December 2013. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39154, longitude -3.88448, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350JS2K009
- 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
- Raining with 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2025.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 19 November 2025
21 m awayRef 2025501670507
Serious
Fiat Seicento crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 6 December 2009
42 m awayRef 200950JS2K027
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 24 July 2006
51 m awayRef 200650E53I751
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 20 March 1981
54 m awayRef 198150G460202
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 3 February 2004
93 m awayRef 200450E53B357
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 19 December 2012
119 m awayRef 201250JS2K013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 201350JS2K009 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 2013.