A303 crash in East Devon on 1 June 1982 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A303 in East Devon at 07:50 on Tuesday 1 June 1982. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jun 1982
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87771, longitude -3.09269, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D350878
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1996.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A303 in East Devon, 10 August 1996
22 m awayRef 199650D352512
Slight
Car crash on the A303 in East Devon, 30 January 1982
28 m awayRef 198250D350145
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A303 in East Devon, 3 November 1995
112 m awayRef 199550D352367
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A303 in East Devon, 4 April 2001
191 m awayRef 200150D352037
Serious
Audi Q3 crash on the A303 in East Devon, 28 May 2022
195 m awayRef 2022501202806
Serious
Minibus crash on the A303 in East Devon, 1 September 1984
206 m awayRef 198450D351647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198250D350878 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.