A379 crash in the South Hams on 22 June 1985 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A379 in the South Hams at 17:00 on Saturday 22 June 1985. A 3-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
- 22 Jun 1985
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.27018, longitude -3.75032, in the TQ7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F551136
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 8 July 2010
36 m awayRef 201050JK2U002
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 25 June 1980
40 m awayRef 198050G480461
Serious
Yamaha DT 125 R crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 6 March 2011
55 m awayRef 201150JK2U001
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 23 May 1989
60 m awayRef 198950F550902
Serious
Lorry crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 29 November 1979
60 m awayRef 197950G481050
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 4 May 2006
60 m awayRef 200650F55F326
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, 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 198550F551136 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.