B3181 crash in Mid Devon on 10 October 1981 at 04:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3181 in Mid Devon at 04:45 on Saturday 10 October 1981. A 22-year-old male passenger, an 18-year-old male passenger and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1981
- Saturday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86835, longitude -3.39006, in the EX15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cullompton.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L910820
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3181
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 June 2025.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 10 June 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501601557
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 27 June 1987
51 m awayRef 198750D420956
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 2 April 1987
61 m awayRef 198750D420423
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 18 July 2015
63 m awayRef 201550KU2R015
Serious
Van crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 24 October 1988
63 m awayRef 198850D421748
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 6 November 2002
64 m awayRef 200250D426689
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198150L910820 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.