Unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ7 on 30 September 1983 at 08:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 08:30 on Friday 30 September 1983. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 1983
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.285, longitude -3.78119, in the TQ7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsbridge.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350F552000
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3264 in the South Hams, 21 November 1995
54 m awayRef 199550F552271
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3264 in the South Hams, 9 August 1995
57 m awayRef 199550F551510
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 29 July 2018
58 m awayRef 2018500317345
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 30 March 2010
64 m awayRef 201050JK2A002
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 21 May 2013
65 m awayRef 201350JK2Y003
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 9 January 2007
67 m awayRef 200750F55A520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198350F552000 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1983.