B3205 crash in the South Hams on 7 September 1981 at 11:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B3205 in the South Hams at 11:00 on Monday 7 September 1981. An 83-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
- 7 Sep 1981
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34919, longitude -3.57134, in the TQ6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K721272
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3205
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 April 1993.
Serious
Car crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 17 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199350F270822
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3205 in the South Hams, 3 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198450F272278
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B3205 in Torbay, 2 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199350F271247
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 8 May 2001
45 m awayRef 200150F272683
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B3205 in Torbay, 26 August 1996
54 m awayRef 199650F271606
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 29 August 2025
64 m awayRef 2025501637887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198150K721272 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1981.