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C road crash in Exeter EX3 on 2 November 1986 at 00:24 involving a car

A car crashed on a C road in Exeter at 00:24 on Sunday 2 November 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
2 Nov 1986
Sunday, 00:24
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69095, longitude -3.46735, in the EX3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Topsham.

Map of where the crash happened in Exeter

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198650D212003
Council area
Exeter
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, 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 198650D212003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1986.