Serious A3122 crash in the South Hams on 4 January 2017 at 23:12 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A3122 in the South Hams at 23:12 on Wednesday 4 January 2017. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jan 2017
- Wednesday, 23:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34696, longitude -3.60724, in the TQ6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500151623
- 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
- 3122
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 29 March 1985
9 m awayRef 198550F530493
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 17 October 2014
37 m awayRef 201450JH2C003
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 14 September 2019
38 m awayRef 2019500886269
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 6 October 1979
43 m awayRef 197950G490881
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 20 April 1990
59 m awayRef 199050F530708
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 2 October 1990
117 m awayRef 199050F531846
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017500151623 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 2017.