A373 crash in Mid Devon on 22 November 1981 at 18:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A373 in Mid Devon at 18:00 on Sunday 22 November 1981. The 30-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
- 22 Nov 1981
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9052, longitude -3.4863, 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
- 198150L900914
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 23 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199950D413509
Slight
Renault 14 crash on the B3391 in Mid Devon, 25 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199150D411075
Slight
Car crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 21 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198050L900197
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 31 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199650D414165
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 8 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197950L900318
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the B3391 in Mid Devon, 22 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199350D410409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 198150L900914 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.