Serious A30 crash in East Devon on 15 July 1982 at 00:54 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in East Devon at 00:54 on Thursday 15 July 1982. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger and a 23-year-old female 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
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jul 1982
- Thursday, 00:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82354, longitude -3.15276, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D351221
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 30 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D350543
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in East Devon, 11 August 1979
At the same spotRef 197950L780575
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 19 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198150L780821
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 18 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D352213
Fatal
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 15 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D351686
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A30 in East Devon, 10 September 2017
13 m awayRef 2017500219326
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 198250D351221 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.