B3231 crash in North Devon on 16 March 1983 at 15:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3231 in North Devon at 15:10 on Wednesday 16 March 1983. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1983
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1171, longitude -4.19308, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C230097
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3231
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 1990.
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 29 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199050C230514
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Austin Metro crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 9 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199550C230844
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 23 April 2008
22 m awayRef 200850CN2F001
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Ford Transit crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 21 June 2019
24 m awayRef 2019500853121
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Seat Mii crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 5 June 2025
29 m awayRef 2025501598952
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Renault Scenic crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 22 May 2005
32 m awayRef 200550C23G975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 198350C230097 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.