C road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 10 September 1983 at 08:20 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 08:20 on Saturday 10 September 1983. The 19-year-old female driver of the car 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
- 10 Sep 1983
- Saturday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94057, longitude -3.57355, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D411710
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 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 4 November 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 4 November 2020
10 m awayRef 2020501001446
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 29 March 2018
11 m awayRef 2018500282736
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 22 December 2005
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Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 11 September 1990
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 24 November 2013
161 m awayRef 201350KT2R003
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 4 August 2025
186 m awayRef 2025501695965
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, 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 198350D411710 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.