C road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 2 April 1982 at 12:38 involving a van
A van crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 12:38 on Friday 2 April 1982. The 25-year-old male driver 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
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1982
- Friday, 12:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86747, longitude -3.4257, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D420609
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 April 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 25 April 1981
108 m awayRef 198150L910289
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 12 August 1994
153 m awayRef 199450D311956
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 12 July 2017
164 m awayRef 2017500204859
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 26 November 2020
190 m awayRef 2020501015293
Fatal
Van crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 8 July 1980
205 m awayRef 198050L900490
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 26 May 1988
208 m awayRef 198850D420808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198250D420609 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1982.