Serious A377 crash in East Devon on 6 May 1986 at 15:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A377 in East Devon at 15:10 on Tuesday 6 May 1986. The 75-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 1986
- Tuesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75253, longitude -3.55305, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650D210773
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2000.
Serious
Ducati crash on the A377 in East Devon, 24 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200050D213160
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in East Devon, 16 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198450D211623
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in East Devon, 17 August 1980
14 m awayRef 198050J920790
Slight
Scania crash on the A377 in East Devon, 16 July 2024
33 m awayRef 2024501468441
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 21 November 2000
72 m awayRef 200050D216409
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in East Devon, 20 May 1985
73 m awayRef 198550D210872
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 75, 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 198650D210773 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1986.