B3417 crash in the South Hams on 24 October 2019 at 20:39 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris crashed on the B3417 in the South Hams at 20:39 on Thursday 24 October 2019. A 16-year-old female passenger 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
- 24 Oct 2019
- Thursday, 20:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.40934, longitude -4.02719, in the PL7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500912667
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3417
- 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
- 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, 78 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 September 1986.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 10 September 1986
78 m awayRef 198650E511739
Slight
Car crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 18 March 2014
84 m awayRef 201450JI4M009
Slight
Volvo crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 6 November 2006
119 m awayRef 200650E21O056
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 8 August 2015
161 m awayRef 201550JI4M010
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 3 October 2018
167 m awayRef 2018500800328
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 2 May 1980
315 m awayRef 198050G460309
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019500912667 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 2019.