Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 30 October 1981 at 20:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Exeter at 20:45 on Friday 30 October 1981. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 1981
- Friday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73484, longitude -3.50967, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150J661117
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 December 1981
20 m awayRef 198150J661250
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 January 1982
22 m awayRef 198250D210194
Slight
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 May 2024
27 m awayRef 2024501448360
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 7 November 2013
31 m awayRef 201350DE2C005
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 15 September 1997
41 m awayRef 199750D213341
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 11 January 1991
50 m awayRef 199150D210062
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198150J661117 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1981.