B3213 crash in the South Hams on 2 May 1985 at 19:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3213 in the South Hams at 19:15 on Thursday 2 May 1985. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 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
- 2 May 1985
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39683, longitude -3.87627, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F520804
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3213
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1998.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 25 November 1998
28 m awayRef 199850F527280
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 10 February 2000
42 m awayRef 200050E530383
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 5 February 2025
48 m awayRef 2025501550791
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 10 November 2004
50 m awayRef 200450F51Q009
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 22 March 1992
54 m awayRef 199250F520458
Slight
Car crash on the B3213 in the South Hams, 5 October 1980
60 m awayRef 198050G460800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: 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 198550F520804 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1985.