B3181 crash in Exeter on 18 July 1989 at 13:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Exeter at 13:05 on Tuesday 18 July 1989. The 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 55-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 1989
- Tuesday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72183, longitude -3.47936, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198950D211178
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3181
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 3183
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2000.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 29 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200050D215798
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 25 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199750D214393
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A3015 in Exeter, 21 September 2021
3 m awayRef 2021501109566
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 19 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198750D211482
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 4 October 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D211744
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 24 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198250D210792
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, 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 198950D211178 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 1989.