A373 crash in East Devon on 19 March 1983 at 10:55 involving a car
Two cars and a van were involved in a crash on the A373 in East Devon at 10:55 on Saturday 19 March 1983. The 25-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight 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, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80036, longitude -3.19533, in the EX14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Honiton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D350442
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2001.
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A373 in East Devon, 8 November 2001
14 m awayRef 200150D357039
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A373 in East Devon, 30 September 2014
17 m awayRef 201450KH2H036
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in East Devon, 13 May 1983
28 m awayRef 198350D350807
Serious
Car crash on the A373 in East Devon, 20 May 1980
28 m awayRef 198050L780341
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A373 in East Devon, 8 January 2021
29 m awayRef 2021501017230
Slight
Ford Sapphire crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 30 August 1997
50 m awayRef 199750D353687
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198350D350442 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.