Serious C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 12 July 1981 at 23:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Exeter at 23:35 on Sunday 12 July 1981. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 1981
- Sunday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73149, longitude -3.51849, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150J660675
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 10 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 10 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D210395
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Slight
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 4 March 1980
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 August 1999
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, 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 198150J660675 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.