C road crash in Torridge EX39 on 9 July 1982 at 08:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Torridge at 08:15 on Friday 9 July 1982. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 36-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were 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
- 9 Jul 1982
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02149, longitude -4.17901, 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
- 198250C410259
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 10 December 2012
16 m awayRef 201250CD2E010
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 11 October 1985
301 m awayRef 198550C410460
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 31 October 2025
303 m awayRef 2025501662058
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 9 May 2021
313 m awayRef 2021501050006
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 24 September 2024
462 m awayRef 2024501495059
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 5 December 1989
466 m awayRef 198950C411389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, 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 198250C410259 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.