C road crash in the South Hams TQ6 on 14 August 1985 at 13:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in the South Hams at 13:55 on Wednesday 14 August 1985. A 33-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 1985
- Wednesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35187, longitude -3.57916, in the TQ6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F531576
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1993.
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Bristol (BLMC) crash on a C road in the South Hams, 10 August 1993
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 9 April 1985
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Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 17 July 1982
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 31 December 2015
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Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 3 March 1981
22 m awayRef 198150G490187
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 19 August 1983
22 m awayRef 198350F531688
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198550F531576 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.