Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 17 June 1985 at 01:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 01:00 on Monday 17 June 1985. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 1985
- Monday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00362, longitude -3.62528, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C240221
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 180 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 December 2020.
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Fatal
Van crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 October 1986
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 September 1980
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 27 August 2020
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, 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 198550C240221 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 1985.