Serious C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 13 August 1981 at 13:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Exeter at 13:10 on Thursday 13 August 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 1981
- Thursday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73294, longitude -3.51755, 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
- 198150J660771
- 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 May 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 1 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D210689
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 2 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D210489
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 2 October 2022
4 m awayRef 2022501232818
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 12 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199150D211224
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 26 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199450D210997
Slight
Austin Montego crash on a C road in Exeter, 8 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199050D212407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198150J660771 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.