C road crash in Torridge EX39 on 1 November 1985 at 21:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Torridge at 21:00 on Friday 1 November 1985. The 30-year-old male driver, a 30-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 1985
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97303, longitude -4.38514, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C410508
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 175 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1980.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Torridge, 5 August 1980
175 m awayRef 198050H610345
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 8 December 2002
186 m awayRef 200250C418245
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 26 September 1998
303 m awayRef 199850C415863
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 26 October 2022
511 m awayRef 2022501241279
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 3 March 2005
639 m awayRef 200550C41C687
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torridge, 5 April 1983
768 m awayRef 198350C410133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198550C410508 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 1985.