Serious A3052 crash in East Devon on 17 July 1982 at 20:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A3052 in East Devon at 20:45 on Saturday 17 July 1982. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jul 1982
- Saturday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72663, longitude -3.03448, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D341210
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3052
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 2002.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 19 August 2002
54 m awayRef 200250D345158
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 8 April 2011
82 m awayRef 201150KN3I002
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 16 August 2025
102 m awayRef 2025501632807
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 8 August 1979
102 m awayRef 197950L800566
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 12 September 2019
109 m awayRef 2019500890391
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 22 June 1999
126 m awayRef 199950D343442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198250D341210 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.