C road crash in Mid Devon EX17 on 4 July 1983 at 07:20 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 07:20 on Monday 4 July 1983. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 1983
- Monday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79341, longitude -3.65373, in the EX17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crediton.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D431217
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2000.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 28 January 2000
45 m awayRef 200050D430586
Serious
Scooter crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 22 January 1989
57 m awayRef 198950D430147
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 20 November 2025
69 m awayRef 2025501671610
Serious
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 4 August 1994
106 m awayRef 199450D431907
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 27 April 1996
114 m awayRef 199650D431260
Fatal
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 18 June 1995
120 m awayRef 199550D431331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198350D431217 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.