C road crash in North Devon EX34 on 28 June 1985 at 16:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in North Devon at 16:30 on Friday 28 June 1985. A 17-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jun 1985
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20862, longitude -4.12656, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilfracombe.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C310234
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 6 April 1982
At the same spotRef 198250C310112
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 9 November 1980
At the same spotRef 198050H580533
Serious
Van crash on a C road in North Devon, 8 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198650C310500
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 8 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200550C31A199
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 22 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199950C316758
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 15 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199350C311601
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198550C310234 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.