Serious A396 crash in Mid Devon on 4 July 1983 at 20:45 involving a car
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 1983
- Monday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87507, longitude -3.49402, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D411170
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 396
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2009.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 1 November 2009
10 m awayRef 200950KT3F007
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 31 August 2023
18 m awayRef 2023501347326
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 27 May 1997
20 m awayRef 199750D411687
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 27 December 2012
21 m awayRef 201250KT3F005
Slight
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 21 February 1981
45 m awayRef 198150L900113
Slight
Lorry crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 17 July 1983
50 m awayRef 198350D411259
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 3 (Motorcycle)
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 198350D411170 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1983.