A376 crash in East Devon on 28 July 1983 at 08:23 involving a car
A car crashed on the A376 in East Devon at 08:23 on Thursday 28 July 1983. The 17-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 08:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63293, longitude -3.35736, in the EX9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D311359
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2001.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 10 June 2001
22 m awayRef 200150D313437
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 24 January 2011
29 m awayRef 201150KE2E003
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 5 July 1986
81 m awayRef 198650D311191
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 6 January 2005
91 m awayRef 200550D31A140
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 6 April 2011
105 m awayRef 201150KE2E007
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 31 October 2020
110 m awayRef 2020501000596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, 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 198350D311359 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1983.