A373 crash in North Devon on 10 March 1989 at 20:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A373 in North Devon at 20:45 on Friday 10 March 1989. The 45-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 1989
- Friday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91132, longitude -3.69688, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198950C250293
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3042
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in North Devon, 26 June 1985
20 m awayRef 198550C250248
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B3042 in North Devon, 18 September 1998
50 m awayRef 199850C256098
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B3137 in Mid Devon, 5 December 2025
55 m awayRef 2025501678928
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 August 1986
242 m awayRef 198650C250921
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B3137 in Torridge, 8 October 1999
247 m awayRef 199950C535878
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the B3137 in North Devon, 9 November 2001
632 m awayRef 200150C257031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 198950C250293 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 1989.