A386 crash in West Devon on 2 May 2017 at 17:13 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 17:13 on Tuesday 2 May 2017. The 70-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2017
- Tuesday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6501, longitude -4.09029, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500180849
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in West Devon, 8 January 2005
6 m awayRef 200550E61A256
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 October 1996
16 m awayRef 199650E612487
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 October 1996
44 m awayRef 199650E612479
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 5 August 1989
86 m awayRef 198950E611487
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 September 2000
96 m awayRef 200050E612591
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 31 August 1992
110 m awayRef 199250E611939
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017500180849 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 2017.