Serious A377 crash in North Devon on 19 March 1981 at 08:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 08:30 on Thursday 19 March 1981. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Mar 1981
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88546, longitude -3.85973, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150H570123
- 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
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 October 1998.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 21 October 1998
20 m awayRef 199850C256632
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 5 November 1989
22 m awayRef 198950C251286
Serious
Van crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 5 April 1988
128 m awayRef 198850C254343
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 1 November 2022
211 m awayRef 2022501236901
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in North Devon, 11 October 1980
234 m awayRef 198050H560488
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 20 October 2024
273 m awayRef 2024501506294
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, 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 198150H570123 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.