A386 crash in West Devon on 25 March 2017 at 13:09 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 13:09 on Saturday 25 March 2017. The 23-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 and the 36-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Vito van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 13:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77774, longitude -4.02851, 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
- 2017500180972
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in West Devon, 20 January 2007
11 m awayRef 200750C51B121
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 January 2004
16 m awayRef 200450C51B028
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 January 2005
18 m awayRef 200550C51A479
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in West Devon, 21 October 2001
85 m awayRef 200150C516709
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 2 June 2009
98 m awayRef 200950JO2G003
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 January 2008
103 m awayRef 200850C51A782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
- 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 2017500180972 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.