Serious A386 crash in Torridge on 6 April 1982 at 14:16 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A386 in Torridge at 14:16 on Tuesday 6 April 1982. The 56-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 56-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were seriously injured and the 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 6 Apr 1982
- Tuesday, 14:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98982, longitude -4.19876, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250C420110
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 6 July 1984
10 m awayRef 198450C430289
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 14 August 1981
14 m awayRef 198150H610412
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 19 November 1982
14 m awayRef 198250C430542
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A386 in Torridge, 26 August 2008
22 m awayRef 200850CD2F001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A386 in Torridge, 25 December 2020
31 m awayRef 2020501017201
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A386 in Torridge, 2 January 2006
32 m awayRef 200650C41A130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198250C420110 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.