A379 crash in the South Hams on 16 June 1985 at 10:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A379 in the South Hams at 10:25 on Sunday 16 June 1985. A 10-year-old male 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
- 16 Jun 1985
- Sunday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34924, longitude -3.88845, 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
- 198550F551056
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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 22 September 1988.
Slight
Van crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 22 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198850F551846
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 21 September 1985
14 m awayRef 198550F551866
Slight
Land Rover 88 crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 12 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199750F550580
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 19 June 2018
26 m awayRef 2018500307658
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 9 November 2006
50 m awayRef 200650E53O308
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 3 October 2010
51 m awayRef 201050JK2B008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198550F551056 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.