A361 crash in North Devon on 8 July 1986 at 01:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 01:00 on Tuesday 8 July 1986. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 1986
- Tuesday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00469, longitude -3.61961, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650C240658
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 February 1985
82 m awayRef 198550C240044
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 27 August 2020
168 m awayRef 2020500989012
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 September 1980
263 m awayRef 198050H570450
Slight
Lorry crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 5 June 1987
293 m awayRef 198750C242547
Fatal
Van crash on the A361 in North Devon, 28 October 1986
326 m awayRef 198650C241167
Fatal
Volkswagen Bora crash on the B3227 in Mid Devon, 5 December 2020
365 m awayRef 2020501005340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198650C240658 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1986.