C road crash in Mid Devon EX17 on 3 September 1982 at 16:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 16:55 on Friday 3 September 1982. The 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 3 Sep 1982
- Friday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78017, longitude -3.70518, in the EX17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D431535
- 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, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2016.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 28 January 2003
91 m awayRef 200350D43A835
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 15 October 2007
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 9 August 1992
388 m awayRef 199250D431304
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 4 November 2024
397 m awayRef 2024501512732
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 2 February 1981
421 m awayRef 198150J920089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 198250D431535 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.