A375 crash in East Devon on 18 April 1981 at 13:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A375 in East Devon at 13:45 on Saturday 18 April 1981. A 52-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 1981
- Saturday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78707, longitude -3.20194, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L780228
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 375
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2025.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 4 March 2025
36 m awayRef 2025501560801
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A375 in East Devon, 1 June 2006
54 m awayRef 200650D35G329
Serious
Ford New Holland crash on the A375 in East Devon, 2 April 2003
60 m awayRef 200350D35C865
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 27 May 2005
63 m awayRef 200550D35G239
Serious
Car crash on the A375 in East Devon, 26 April 1985
67 m awayRef 198550D350662
Slight
Volvo crash on the A375 in East Devon, 12 December 2007
71 m awayRef 200750D35P294
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198150L780228 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.