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A373 crash in Mid Devon on 27 February 1981 at 13:58 involving a car

A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A373 in Mid Devon at 13:58 on Friday 27 February 1981. The 29-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Feb 1981
Friday, 13:58
Vehicles
2
Car and motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90291, longitude -3.48225, in the EX16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tiverton.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198150L900123
Council area
Mid Devon
Police force
Devon and Cornwall

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
373
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1985.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)

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 198150L900123 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1981.