A39 crash in North Devon on 20 April 1985 at 16:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 16:25 on Saturday 20 April 1985. The 32-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1985
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21619, longitude -3.80458, in the EX35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C320117
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198050H590432
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in North Devon, 22 August 2018
19 m awayRef 2018500331397
Slight
Lorry crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 April 1980
28 m awayRef 198050H590151
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1400 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 26 August 2021
28 m awayRef 2021501090219
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 30 June 1984
100 m awayRef 198450C320273
Slight
HGV crash on the A39 in North Devon, 18 July 2007
100 m awayRef 200750C32I958
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, 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 198550C320117 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.