A361 crash in North Devon on 24 December 1981 at 15:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A361 in North Devon at 15:55 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11969, longitude -4.16034, 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
- 198150H560689
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1999.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A361 in North Devon, 16 June 1999
20 m awayRef 199950C233337
Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A361 in North Devon, 9 January 1993
58 m awayRef 199350C230023
Serious
Ford Ecosport crash on the A361 in North Devon, 14 September 2022
59 m awayRef 2022501219509
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 19 April 1981
78 m awayRef 198150H560170
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 1 November 1994
81 m awayRef 199450C231352
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A361 in North Devon, 25 August 1998
102 m awayRef 199850C234989
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198150H560689 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.