B3177 crash in East Devon on 30 August 1980 at 17:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3177 in East Devon at 17:20 on Saturday 30 August 1980. A 19-year-old male passenger 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
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 1980
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77089, longitude -3.26066, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198050L780673
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3177
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2006.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B3177 in East Devon, 4 November 2006
50 m awayRef 200650D35O182
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 30 October 2009
98 m awayRef 200950KO2W011
Slight
Car crash on the B3177 in East Devon, 10 February 1989
150 m awayRef 198950D350199
Slight
Car crash on the B3177 in East Devon, 11 December 1987
156 m awayRef 198750D352034
Serious
Triumph Sprint ST 1050 crash on the B3177 in East Devon, 7 July 2021
156 m awayRef 2021501086228
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3177 in East Devon, 18 November 1999
161 m awayRef 199950D356742
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198050L780673 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1980.