Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 13 September 1981 at 01:30 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 01:30 on Sunday 13 September 1981. A 15-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 1981
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92901, longitude -3.47411, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L900780
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 197 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 23 January 1980
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 15, 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 198150L900780 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1981.