Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX8 on 17 September 1983 at 15:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in East Devon at 15:25 on Saturday 17 September 1983. The 21-year-old male 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
- 17 Sep 1983
- Saturday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61571, longitude -3.38373, in the EX8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D311730
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2020.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 14 March 2020
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Serious
Land Rover crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 13 March 2018
57 m awayRef 2018500281206
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 15 February 2013
57 m awayRef 201350KE2C003
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 19 April 1989
98 m awayRef 198950D310861
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 January 1979
104 m awayRef 197950L750003
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 12 June 1999
108 m awayRef 199950D313240
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198350D311730 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.