A39 crash in North Devon on 30 May 1983 at 23:45 involving a van
A van crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 23:45 on Monday 30 May 1983. A 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 1983
- Monday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07428, longitude -4.06514, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C210227
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 31 July 1980
10 m awayRef 198050H560334
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 6 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198850C215190
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 13 September 1988
20 m awayRef 198850C215078
Slight
Minibus crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 23 May 1994
20 m awayRef 199450C210584
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 3 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199650C213831
Slight
Derbi crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 21 August 2002
20 m awayRef 200250C215229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198350C210227 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1983.