Serious B3176 crash in East Devon on 7 June 1982 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3176 in East Devon at 23:30 on Monday 7 June 1982. The 47-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jun 1982
- Monday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69285, longitude -3.25064, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D330901
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3176
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2007.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 13 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200750D35M476
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 17 January 2017
11 m awayRef 2017500156084
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 19 May 2015
12 m awayRef 201550KS2G011
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 25 July 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501620748
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 1 September 2000
30 m awayRef 200050D334599
Serious
Car crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 1 October 1982
41 m awayRef 198250D331725
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, 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 198250D330901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1982.