Serious A3072 crash in Torridge on 13 March 1982 at 12:00 involving a car
A car, a lorry and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Torridge at 12:00 on Saturday 13 March 1982. A 43-year-old female passenger in the car was seriously injured and the 47-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Mar 1982
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82186, longitude -4.41917, in the EX22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250C420087
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2002.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 12 July 2002
50 m awayRef 200250C424264
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 13 May 2005
100 m awayRef 200550C42F689
Serious
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 27 October 1980
100 m awayRef 198050H610519
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 12 November 1996
100 m awayRef 199650C423552
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 25 October 1982
100 m awayRef 198250C420499
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A3072 in Torridge, 11 July 1990
104 m awayRef 199050C420710
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 3: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198250C420087 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.