C road crash in West Devon PL16 on 17 September 1985 at 17:20 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 17:20 on Tuesday 17 September 1985. The 23-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66084, longitude -4.28679, in the PL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C530404
- Council area
- West Devon
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 1 April 1983
10 m awayRef 198350C530120
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 12 January 1988
32 m awayRef 198850C534039
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 26 March 2006
155 m awayRef 200650E61D489
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A30 in West Devon, 20 September 2024
255 m awayRef 2024501533811
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A30 in West Devon, 26 May 1998
357 m awayRef 199850C533058
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 7 August 1986
381 m awayRef 198650C530820
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 198550C530404 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1985.