Unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 23 November 1981 at 09:15 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 09:15 on Monday 23 November 1981. A 17-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 1981
- Monday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92292, longitude -3.55502, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L900916
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a fatal crash on 22 July 1984.
Fatal
Car crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 22 July 1984
130 m awayRef 198450D411255
Slight
Car crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 26 April 1985
150 m awayRef 198550D410667
Serious
Car crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 3 December 1979
202 m awayRef 197950L900894
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 22 October 1985
340 m awayRef 198550D412015
Serious
Car crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 3 September 1987
424 m awayRef 198750D411363
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3221 in Mid Devon, 29 November 1981
505 m awayRef 198150L900937
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, 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 198150L900916 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.