A386 crash in West Devon on 24 September 1985 at 14:58 involving a car
A car crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 14:58 on Tuesday 24 September 1985. The 64-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 14:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53969, longitude -4.15023, in the PL19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tavistock.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550E611842
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2008.
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Land Rover Discovery crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200850E61C337
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Honda SA50J crash on the A386 in West Devon, 11 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199650E612394
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Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 12 September 1987
28 m awayRef 198750E611622
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 July 1995
32 m awayRef 199550E611763
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Austin Maestro crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 June 2002
36 m awayRef 200250E611407
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Alexander Dennis crash on the A386 in West Devon, 1 July 2025
57 m awayRef 2025501610124
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, 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 198550E611842 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.