A361 crash in North Devon on 3 March 1981 at 05:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 05:45 on Tuesday 3 March 1981. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 1981
- Tuesday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09891, longitude -4.15051, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150H560089
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C231256
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A361 in North Devon, 6 May 2013
13 m awayRef 201350CN2B010
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in North Devon, 10 June 1980
20 m awayRef 198050H560233
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 8 November 2001
22 m awayRef 200150C237100
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A361 in North Devon, 2 November 2001
32 m awayRef 200150C236890
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 10 November 2019
35 m awayRef 2019500900980
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 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
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198150H560089 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 1981.