A376 crash in East Devon on 21 December 1986 at 11:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 11:50 on Sunday 21 December 1986. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64788, longitude -3.4165, in the EX8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650D312379
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2001.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A376 in East Devon, 7 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200150D310791
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A376 in East Devon, 3 April 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500286774
Slight
Ford Tourneo crash on the A376 in East Devon, 8 January 2024
5 m awayRef 2024501402367
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A376 in East Devon, 15 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199250D310742
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 1 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D311787
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 26 April 1980
10 m awayRef 198050L760272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198650D312379 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.