A386 crash in West Devon on 14 December 1981 at 11:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 11:00 on Monday 14 December 1981. The 75-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1981
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49386, longitude -4.09358, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150G531091
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200850JT2R010
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 9 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199850E612633
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 27 May 2021
5 m awayRef 2021501055420
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198950E610282
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A386 in West Devon, 28 February 2022
11 m awayRef 2022501155787
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 10 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025501627099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198150G531091 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 1981.