A377 crash in North Devon on 29 March 1981 at 02:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 02:40 on Sunday 29 March 1981. The 34-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 1981
- Sunday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03527, longitude -4.04372, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150H560132
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 16 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198550C210469
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A377 in North Devon, 16 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200550C21C036
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in North Devon, 10 June 1983
At the same spotRef 198350C210254
Slight
Lorry crash on the A377 in North Devon, 3 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198450C210034
Serious
Lorry crash on the A377 in North Devon, 15 August 1980
At the same spotRef 198050H560372
Slight
Lorry crash on the A377 in North Devon, 12 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C210674
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 198150H560132 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.