A373 crash in North Devon on 26 June 1985 at 15:50 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A373 in North Devon at 15:50 on Wednesday 26 June 1985. The 59-year-old female 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 1985
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91114, longitude -3.69688, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C250248
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3042
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in North Devon, 10 March 1989
20 m awayRef 198950C250293
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3042 in North Devon, 18 September 1998
54 m awayRef 199850C256098
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 5 December 2025
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Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B3137 in Torridge, 8 October 1999
237 m awayRef 199950C535878
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 August 1986
258 m awayRef 198650C250921
Serious
Car crash on the B3042 in Mid Devon, 9 December 2022
627 m awayRef 2022501252077
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, 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 198550C250248 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.