C road crash in the South Hams TQ7 on 21 June 1985 at 14:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in the South Hams at 14:20 on Friday 21 June 1985. The 50-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1985
- Friday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.32922, longitude -3.80082, in the TQ7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F551110
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1996.
Slight
Lexus LS400 crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 28 December 1996
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Serious
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Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 18 February 2005
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Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 10 July 2025
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Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 21 May 2020
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Slight
Mini One crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 6 April 2008
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198550F551110 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.