Serious A361 crash in North Devon on 3 September 1985 at 13:25 involving a van
A van crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 13:25 on Tuesday 3 September 1985. The 49-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14632, longitude -4.14528, 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
- 198550C310386
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1995.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A361 in North Devon, 12 October 1995
20 m awayRef 199550C311374
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 11 February 2003
71 m awayRef 200350C31B255
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 13 January 1985
82 m awayRef 198550C310013
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A361 in North Devon, 16 September 2017
89 m awayRef 2017500226060
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 28 March 2001
91 m awayRef 200150C311869
Slight
Van crash on the A361 in North Devon, 15 February 1984
110 m awayRef 198450C310058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198550C310386 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.