B3172 crash in East Devon on 19 March 1983 at 23:34 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3172 in East Devon at 23:34 on Saturday 19 March 1983. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 1983
- Saturday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70435, longitude -3.06175, in the EX12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D340477
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3172
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1985.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 30 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D342121
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 17 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200550D34K633
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 8 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D346243
Slight
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 13 April 1986
14 m awayRef 198650D340584
Serious
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 24 December 1989
14 m awayRef 198950D342298
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 November 2019
16 m awayRef 2019500904306
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 198350D340477 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.