Serious B3180 crash in East Devon on 17 April 1981 at 00:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 00:05 on Friday 17 April 1981. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Apr 1981
- Friday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66391, longitude -3.37665, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L760251
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 1999.
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 13 December 1999
14 m awayRef 199950D317262
Slight
Minibus crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 13 February 1989
50 m awayRef 198950D310239
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 12 August 2025
69 m awayRef 2025501628075
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 11 April 2018
70 m awayRef 2018500288571
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 16 November 2010
81 m awayRef 201050KE3M013
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 16 February 2006
89 m awayRef 200650D31C070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, 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 198150L760251 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1981.