Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 29 December 1982 at 17:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Exeter at 17:55 on Wednesday 29 December 1982. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1982
- Wednesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71029, longitude -3.50223, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D212409
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 22 September 1987
22 m awayRef 198750D211498
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 3 June 1989
70 m awayRef 198950D210868
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 27 July 1980
71 m awayRef 198050J670725
Serious
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 20 September 1994
71 m awayRef 199450D212298
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 September 1995
71 m awayRef 199550D212010
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 August 1987
72 m awayRef 198750D211174
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198250D212409 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.