C road crash in East Devon EX3 on 18 December 1981 at 21:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in East Devon at 21:10 on Friday 18 December 1981. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1981
- Friday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6853, longitude -3.45231, in the EX3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L761001
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 26 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 26 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198950D211632
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in East Devon, 9 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199050D211057
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 7 October 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D211778
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 24 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198150L760748
Slight
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Exeter, 29 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199250D211854
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 3 July 1981
At the same spotRef 198150L760492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- 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 198150L761001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1981.