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Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 8 December 1981 at 16:45 involving a van

A van hit a pedestrian on the A361 in North Devon at 16:45 on Tuesday 8 December 1981. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Dec 1981
Tuesday, 16:45
Vehicles
1
Van
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03903, longitude -3.92835, in the EX32 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Devon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198150H570660
Council area
North Devon
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
361
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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 29 July 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198150H570660 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.