Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX12 on 12 June 1981 at 23:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 23:20 on Friday 12 June 1981. The 61-year-old male driver of the car and the 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 1981
- Friday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70919, longitude -3.07333, in the EX12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L800419
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1990.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199050D340621
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199150D340757
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 28 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197950L800377
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 3 December 1988
22 m awayRef 198850D342017
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 8 May 1985
41 m awayRef 198550D340774
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 18 August 2018
41 m awayRef 2018500331414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198150L800419 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.