B3230 crash in North Devon on 4 April 1985 at 17:28 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3230 in North Devon at 17:28 on Thursday 4 April 1985. The 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1985
- Thursday, 17:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17982, longitude -4.09304, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C310100
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3230
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2019.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 7 October 2019
7 m awayRef 2019500897197
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 29 September 2021
8 m awayRef 2021501109612
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 23 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200950CI2Q001
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 15 December 2018
20 m awayRef 2018500806408
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 14 July 1983
20 m awayRef 198350C310313
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 19 January 2000
20 m awayRef 200050C310534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198550C310100 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.