Serious C road crash in Torridge EX39 on 11 November 1983 at 18:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Torridge at 18:40 on Friday 11 November 1983. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 1983
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01452, longitude -4.19608, in the EX39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bideford.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C410552
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2016.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 4 June 2016
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 16 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199650C411841
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 14 September 2025
14 m awayRef 2025501641684
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 15 July 1988
14 m awayRef 198850C414784
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 25 July 2006
14 m awayRef 200650C41I896
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 30 March 2010
14 m awayRef 201050CD2E002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198350C410552 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 1983.