A380 crash in the South Hams on 3 January 2014 at 12:09 involving a van
A van crashed on the A380 in the South Hams at 12:09 on Friday 3 January 2014. The 18-year-old male 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
- 3 Jan 2014
- Friday, 12:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45589, longitude -3.59057, in the TQ3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marldon & Littlehempston, South Hams, TQ3 1NW 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
- 201450JS3N001
- 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
- 380
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2024.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 20 October 2024
13 m awayRef 2024501506171
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 31 August 2025
13 m awayRef 2025501635508
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 1 February 2022
22 m awayRef 2022501146041
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 3 September 2016
45 m awayRef 2016500126888
Slight
Peugeot Tweet crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 21 July 2021
71 m awayRef 2021501073886
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A380 in the South Hams, 16 November 2012
75 m awayRef 201250JS3N011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 201450JS3N001 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 2014.