B3180 crash in East Devon on 1 August 1985 at 18:14 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3180 in East Devon at 18:14 on Thursday 1 August 1985. A 30-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1985
- Thursday, 18:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68189, longitude -3.36968, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D311413
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 21 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198250D310622
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 20 July 1991
71 m awayRef 199150D311277
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 22 January 1985
86 m awayRef 198550D320092
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 22 January 1985
86 m awayRef 198550D320096
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 17 December 2001
95 m awayRef 200150D317892
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 21 October 2008
100 m awayRef 200850KE3M022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 198550D311413 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1985.