A385 crash in the South Hams on 10 February 2015 at 19:12 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volvo V70 were involved in a crash on the A385 in the South Hams at 19:12 on Tuesday 10 February 2015. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volvo V70
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42976, longitude -3.64543, in the TQ9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marldon & Littlehempston, South Hams, TQ9 6PL 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
- 201550JS2F004
- 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
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 2019.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 6 March 2019
18 m awayRef 2019500823432
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 28 July 1990
39 m awayRef 199050F511366
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 24 February 2015
41 m awayRef 201550JS2F006
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 26 May 1985
54 m awayRef 198550F510920
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 23 December 2017
59 m awayRef 2017500257706
Slight
Lorry crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 21 February 1989
78 m awayRef 198950F510308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201550JS2F004 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.