C road crash in West Devon PL19 on 23 August 1983 at 10:10 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 10:10 on Tuesday 23 August 1983. The 41-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1983
- Tuesday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.58819, longitude -4.17278, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350E611610
- Council area
- West 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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 fatal crash on 21 April 1988.
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 21 April 1988
10 m awayRef 198850E610744
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in West Devon, 25 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199350E610951
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 30 November 2008
14 m awayRef 200850JT2K007
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 21 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198450E610144
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in West Devon, 20 August 2002
28 m awayRef 200250E612067
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 13 August 1983
41 m awayRef 198350E611550
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198350E611610 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1983.