Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 24 July 1981 at 17:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 17:15 on Friday 24 July 1981. The 28-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1981
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98952, longitude -3.40165, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L900531
- Council area
- Mid 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 590 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2011.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 14 December 1989
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 19 June 1984
1.1 km awayRef 198450D410985
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 March 1996
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 8 February 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, 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 198150L900531 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.