Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX5 on 8 April 1989 at 17:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 17:00 on Saturday 8 April 1989. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 1989
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78552, longitude -3.56734, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198950D210552
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 121 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 13 January 1989
121 m awayRef 198950D430066
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 3 June 2002
130 m awayRef 200250D213382
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 14 August 2025
276 m awayRef 2025501629008
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on a C road in East Devon, 2 March 1990
392 m awayRef 199050D210427
Slight
Ford Capri crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 7 January 1990
424 m awayRef 199050D430124
Serious
Rover Range Rover crash on a C road in East Devon, 27 October 1994
424 m awayRef 199450D432675
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, 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 198950D210552 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1989.