C road crash in North Devon EX32 on 23 March 1981 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in North Devon at 15:45 on Monday 23 March 1981. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 1981
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08942, longitude -4.00127, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150H560128
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2005.
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 9 May 2005
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 31 October 1987
54 m awayRef 198750C213252
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 29 June 1981
54 m awayRef 198150H560310
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 10 June 1984
58 m awayRef 198450C210312
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 22 May 1987
63 m awayRef 198750C212468
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 13 February 1984
98 m awayRef 198450C210056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198150H560128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1981.