Serious A386 crash in West Devon on 1 September 2020 at 11:33 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 11:33 on Tuesday 1 September 2020. A 92-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured and the 66-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf 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
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Sep 2020
- Tuesday, 11:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.51427, longitude -4.11151, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500980896
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 29 March 1986
6 m awayRef 198650E610555
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 27 August 2006
9 m awayRef 200650E61K670
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 5 June 1999
9 m awayRef 199950E611286
Slight
Van crash on the A386 in West Devon, 1 April 1987
9 m awayRef 198750E610565
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 29 January 1983
9 m awayRef 198350E610185
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 8 August 1983
9 m awayRef 198350E611490
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,365 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 92, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2020500980896 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 2020.