A386 crash in West Devon on 9 May 2016 at 10:30 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 10:30 on Monday 9 May 2016. A 90-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2016
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.50033, longitude -4.0986, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500079161
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in West Devon, 10 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017500242669
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A386 in West Devon, 2 June 2018
At the same spotRef 2018500307276
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 19 November 1999
19 m awayRef 199950E612917
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 June 1994
48 m awayRef 199450E611592
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 15 April 1989
69 m awayRef 198950E610720
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on the A386 in West Devon, 25 June 2004
112 m awayRef 200450E61I375
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016500079161 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 2016.