A361 crash in North Devon on 18 December 1982 at 12:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A361 in North Devon at 12:05 on Saturday 18 December 1982. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1982
- Saturday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0784, longitude -4.0559, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250C210604
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 1987.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A361 in North Devon, 8 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198750C213155
Slight
Car crash on the A3125 in North Devon, 11 December 2012
4 m awayRef 201250CB2D043
Fatal
Citroen Xsara crash on the A3125 in North Devon, 15 February 2023
5 m awayRef 2023501276827
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A3125 in North Devon, 5 December 2013
8 m awayRef 201350CB2D029
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 3 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199750C214676
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 3 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198450C210279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198250C210604 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1982.