A38 crash in the South Hams on 5 January 2025 at 08:55 involving a Renault Twingo
A Renault Twingo crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 08:55 on Sunday 5 January 2025. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2025
- Sunday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Twingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4269, longitude -3.80889, in the TQ10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025501537817
- 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
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining with 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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2014.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 20 June 2014
25 m awayRef 201450JS2L007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 15 October 1981
26 m awayRef 198150G460912
Serious
Honda crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 19 March 1998
106 m awayRef 199850F521731
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 13 May 2014
106 m awayRef 201450JS2L006
Slight
Bus crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 8 July 1986
110 m awayRef 198650F520970
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 24 August 1981
118 m awayRef 198150G460718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Twingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Twingo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025501537817 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 2025.