B3230 crash in North Devon on 9 December 1983 at 08:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 08:10 on Friday 9 December 1983. The 53-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1983
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18171, longitude -4.10285, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C310587
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3230
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 2 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198450C310429
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 14 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198850C314244
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 3 November 2011
20 m awayRef 201150CI2R010
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 11 April 1990
20 m awayRef 199050C310337
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 12 December 2002
22 m awayRef 200250C317561
Slight
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 19 October 1983
22 m awayRef 198350C310511
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, 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 198350C310587 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.