Serious C road crash in East Devon EX14 on 6 August 1983 at 02:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in East Devon at 02:00 on Saturday 6 August 1983. The 35-year-old male driver and a 27-year-old male passenger were seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Aug 1983
- Saturday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84707, longitude -3.22678, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D351433
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 2002.
Serious
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Slight
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192 m awayRef 198950D350011
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 21 July 1979
212 m awayRef 197950L780504
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 8 July 2014
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Fatal
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in East Devon, 11 November 1992
218 m awayRef 199250D351962
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 26 June 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198350D351433 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.