Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 3 November 1982 at 21:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 21:00 on Wednesday 3 November 1982. The 49-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 1982
- Wednesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73914, longitude -3.49677, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D211968
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2006.
Slight
Optare Solo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 30 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200650D21D716
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198050J661074
Slight
Optare Solo crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 13 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200650D21K060
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 May 2011
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Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 3 September 2012
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 198250D211968 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1982.