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Serious A386 crash in Torridge on 14 March 1986 at 12:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A386 in Torridge at 12:30 on Friday 14 March 1986. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Mar 1986
Friday, 12:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95278, longitude -4.14034, in the EX38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Torrington.

Map of where the crash happened in Torridge

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198650C430184
Council area
Torridge
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
386
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198650C430184 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 1986.