Serious B3161 crash in East Devon on 13 October 1981 at 11:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3161 in East Devon at 11:20 on Tuesday 13 October 1981. The 33-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Oct 1981
- Tuesday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77187, longitude -3.06328, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L800793
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3161
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in East Devon, 4 June 2008
81 m awayRef 200850KN3B001
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in East Devon, 20 November 1992
89 m awayRef 199250D342108
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 6 July 2006
94 m awayRef 200650D34I055
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 16 March 1984
143 m awayRef 198450D340416
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B3161 in East Devon, 9 May 1987
146 m awayRef 198750D340641
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A35 in East Devon, 9 October 1995
184 m awayRef 199550D342255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, 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 198150L800793 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.