A377 crash in North Devon on 17 June 1981 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A377 in North Devon at 17:15 on Wednesday 17 June 1981. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1981
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06575, longitude -4.04935, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150H560282
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2000.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A377 in North Devon, 16 October 2000
40 m awayRef 200050C215704
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 December 2005
78 m awayRef 200550C21Q603
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3138 in North Devon, 20 April 2012
88 m awayRef 201250CB2U008
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B3138 in North Devon, 6 May 2025
92 m awayRef 2025501586502
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A39 in North Devon, 14 March 1990
100 m awayRef 199050C210245
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 December 2012
108 m awayRef 201250CB2U017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198150H560282 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.