C road crash in East Devon EX2 on 1 May 1982 at 00:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in East Devon at 00:05 on Saturday 1 May 1982. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1982
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71479, longitude -3.46667, in the EX2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D210675
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1985.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 12 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D212238
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 23 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D210822
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 17 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D212124
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 6 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198750D210160
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in East Devon, 3 August 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D211400
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 9 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D211263
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198250D210675 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 1982.