Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX17 on 6 December 1982 at 13:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 13:10 on Monday 6 December 1982. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 1982
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80909, longitude -3.66436, in the EX17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250D432262
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 2016.
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 29 October 2016
43 m awayRef 2016500135752
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 31 August 1990
73 m awayRef 199050D431667
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 20 February 2025
75 m awayRef 2025501556577
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 31 December 2025
102 m awayRef 2025501704229
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 16 December 1990
139 m awayRef 199050D432473
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 11 May 2006
165 m awayRef 200650D43F478
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, 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 198250D432262 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.