A373 crash in Mid Devon on 30 August 1981 at 23:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A373 in Mid Devon at 23:10 on Sunday 30 August 1981. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 30 Aug 1981
- Sunday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90715, longitude -3.49561, 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
- 198150L900661
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 396
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 7 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198150L900151
Serious
Audi A1 crash on the A3126 in Mid Devon, 18 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025501670742
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 10 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199750D414311
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3126 in Mid Devon, 30 October 2009
14 m awayRef 200950KT2K011
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 24 September 1986
14 m awayRef 198650D411822
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A3126 in Mid Devon, 2 August 2005
14 m awayRef 200550D41J932
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198150L900661 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.