A39 crash in Torridge on 4 April 1982 at 01:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A39 in Torridge at 01:15 on Sunday 4 April 1982. The 19-year-old male driver, a 20-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1982
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95823, longitude -4.4573, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250C410114
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2012.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A39 in Torridge, 13 April 2012
12 m awayRef 201250CD2L003
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 10 September 2015
21 m awayRef 201550CD2L004
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3248 in Torridge, 24 May 2016
448 m awayRef 2016500083364
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 July 2017
448 m awayRef 2017500215305
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Torridge, 24 February 2019
449 m awayRef 2019500828196
Fatal
Van crash on the A39 in Torridge, 8 September 1986
578 m awayRef 198650C410953
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198250C410114 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 1982.