B3212 crash in Exeter on 4 February 1983 at 23:38 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3212 in Exeter at 23:38 on Friday 4 February 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1983
- Friday, 23:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71372, longitude -3.54965, in the EX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D210166
- 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 25 November 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 25 November 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D212160
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 10 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021501049179
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 1 November 2023
5 m awayRef 2023501390526
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 2 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018500800286
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 30 March 2024
7 m awayRef 2024501429511
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 21 July 1990
10 m awayRef 199050D211380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198350D210166 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.