A3072 crash in Mid Devon on 2 October 1982 at 13:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon at 13:00 on Saturday 2 October 1982. A 63-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and a 7-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1982
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79753, longitude -3.6421, 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
- 198250D431773
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 18 September 1980
10 m awayRef 198050J920920
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 15 August 1985
20 m awayRef 198550D431689
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 22 December 2005
30 m awayRef 200550D43R014
Slight
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 31 July 2016
36 m awayRef 2016500101605
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 25 September 2025
44 m awayRef 2025501646558
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon, 11 August 1979
50 m awayRef 197950J920810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198250D431773 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.