C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 15 October 1980 at 12:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Exeter at 12:15 on Wednesday 15 October 1980. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 1980
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71966, longitude -3.54276, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
Map of where the crash happened in Exeter
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198050J651024
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2001.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200150D216779
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 4 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D210676
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 December 2011
5 m awayRef 201150DE2M031
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 16 August 2013
9 m awayRef 201350DE2M016
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 24 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198950D210107
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Exeter, 19 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199450D210947
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198050J651024 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 1980.