Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX16 on 7 August 1982 at 16:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 16:30 on Saturday 7 August 1982. The 18-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Aug 1982
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91568, longitude -3.43927, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D411361
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 14 February 2016
13 m awayRef 2016500049834
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 3 May 2021
131 m awayRef 2021501044671
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 9 July 1992
142 m awayRef 199250D411069
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 13 June 2001
171 m awayRef 200150D413496
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A361 in Mid Devon, 21 June 2010
182 m awayRef 201050KT3D001
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A373 in Mid Devon, 9 June 1985
209 m awayRef 198550D411013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198250D411361 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1982.