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Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 15 September 1982 at 23:10 involving a car

A car crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 23:10 on Wednesday 15 September 1982. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 Sep 1982
Wednesday, 23:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14514, longitude -4.1458, in the EX33 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Devon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198250C310403
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
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
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 25 November 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, 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 198250C310403 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.