Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 13 January 1985 at 04:07 involving a car
A car crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 04:07 on Sunday 13 January 1985. A 24-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jan 1985
- Sunday, 04:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14559, longitude -4.14553, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C310013
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 2003.
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 11 February 2003
14 m awayRef 200350C31B255
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 June 2018
49 m awayRef 2018500308002
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 15 September 1982
54 m awayRef 198250C310403
Serious
Zetor crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 November 1994
54 m awayRef 199450C311437
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A361 in North Devon, 12 October 1995
80 m awayRef 199550C311374
Serious
Van crash on the A361 in North Devon, 3 September 1985
82 m awayRef 198550C310386
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198550C310013 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.