C road crash in East Devon EX2 on 30 July 1986 at 23:10 involving a van
A van crashed on a C road in East Devon at 23:10 on Wednesday 30 July 1986. The 16-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1986
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72485, longitude -3.46784, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650D211429
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2011.
Slight
Honda HR-V crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 2 October 2011
10 m awayRef 201150DE2Q024
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 11 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199950D212619
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 December 2017
10 m awayRef 2017500255082
Serious
Renault 11 crash on a C road in East Devon, 14 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199750D210813
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 19 October 2011
16 m awayRef 201150DE2Q026
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 October 2002
20 m awayRef 200250D216434
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 16, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198650D211429 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.