A361 crash in North Devon on 1 March 1985 at 09:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A361 in North Devon at 09:10 on Friday 1 March 1985. A 29-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1985
- Friday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01818, longitude -3.83224, in the EX36 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Molton.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C240066
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 373
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1995.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 24 October 1986
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 198550C240066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1985.