A384 crash in the South Hams on 16 March 2015 at 23:02 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A384 in the South Hams at 23:02 on Monday 16 March 2015. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2015
- Monday, 23:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45413, longitude -3.71705, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550JS2B001
- 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
- 384
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 2017.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 27 February 2017
4 m awayRef 2017500164524
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 2 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017500211245
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 8 February 2019
7 m awayRef 2019500816909
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 21 October 2014
18 m awayRef 201450JS2B004
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 23 September 1990
23 m awayRef 199050F511792
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on the A384 in the South Hams, 14 July 2003
54 m awayRef 200350F51I634
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201550JS2B001 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 2015.