Serious B3212 crash in Exeter on 12 January 1983 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3212 in Exeter at 17:20 on Wednesday 12 January 1983. The 48-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 1983
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71326, longitude -3.55062, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D210041
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 11 September 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D211695
Serious
Car crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 24 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D211719
Serious
Lexmoto LXR crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 3 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025501663189
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 5 July 2017
4 m awayRef 2017500210819
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 26 October 2024
6 m awayRef 2024501508924
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200550D21F247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, 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 198350D210041 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 1983.