A377 crash in North Devon on 8 December 1988 at 20:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 20:15 on Thursday 8 December 1988. A 39-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0333, longitude -4.04335, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198850C215409
- Council area
- North 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 1995.
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 17 March 1995
22 m awayRef 199550C210320
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on the A377 in North Devon, 17 August 1997
22 m awayRef 199750C212892
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A377 in North Devon, 27 February 2024
28 m awayRef 2024501414815
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 12 May 1997
28 m awayRef 199750C211522
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the A377 in North Devon, 4 December 1998
28 m awayRef 199850C217394
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A377 in North Devon, 14 May 1998
28 m awayRef 199850C212745
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198850C215409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1988.