A3072 crash in West Devon on 18 November 1983 at 18:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3072 in West Devon at 18:10 on Friday 18 November 1983. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1983
- Friday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81289, longitude -4.08794, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350C510561
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3072
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 October 1997.
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 7 October 1997
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Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 15 November 2018
100 m awayRef 2018500801961
Slight
Scania crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 13 January 2021
143 m awayRef 2021501017485
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 19 September 1982
204 m awayRef 198250C510429
Slight
Car crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 29 September 1986
212 m awayRef 198650C511054
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3072 in West Devon, 16 August 1996
351 m awayRef 199650C512482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, 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 198350C510561 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1983.