C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 15 April 1981 at 16:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Exeter at 16:15 on Wednesday 15 April 1981. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 65-year-old female passenger in the car were 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 Apr 1981
- Wednesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71904, longitude -3.54869, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150J650345
- 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 1 December 2003.
Slight
Suzuki AY 50 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200350D21O954
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200550D21A241
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 5 February 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D210194
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 9 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200950DE2M028
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Exeter, 18 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199450D210647
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Exeter, 27 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198150J651076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, 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 198150J650345 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 1981.