C road crash in East Devon EX14 on 2 March 1985 at 14:50 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in East Devon at 14:50 on Saturday 2 March 1985. The 23-year-old male 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
- 2 Mar 1985
- Saturday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81468, longitude -3.18405, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D350337
- Council area
- East 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 103 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 9 October 2009
103 m awayRef 200950KH2G002
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on a C road in East Devon, 10 August 1992
103 m awayRef 199250D351300
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 27 August 1984
117 m awayRef 198450D351496
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 11 October 2022
130 m awayRef 2022501229165
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in East Devon, 2 May 1995
130 m awayRef 199550D350991
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 9 November 2001
144 m awayRef 200150D357030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, 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 198550D350337 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.