A377 crash in North Devon on 26 November 1983 at 23:30 involving a van
A van crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 23:30 on Saturday 26 November 1983. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 1983
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90091, longitude -3.87741, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C250571
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 22 October 2012
19 m awayRef 201250KC5F006
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 26 March 1990
94 m awayRef 199050C250275
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 13 May 2015
141 m awayRef 201550KC5F006
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 27 April 2012
148 m awayRef 201250KC5F002
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 27 August 2011
151 m awayRef 201150KC5F004
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A377 in North Devon, 17 July 2007
180 m awayRef 200750C25I528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198350C250571 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.