A373 crash in East Devon on 23 August 1981 at 00:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A373 in East Devon at 00:30 on Sunday 23 August 1981. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1981
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85664, longitude -3.34538, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150L910641
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 373
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 5 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201050KU2H001
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Toyota Avensis crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 23 July 2017
1 m awayRef 2017500206432
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Citroen C3 crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 21 February 2012
5 m awayRef 201250KU2H001
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 27 July 1996
10 m awayRef 199650D422245
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 21 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D421105
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 14 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200150D427902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 198150L910641 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.