A377 crash in Exeter on 3 May 1983 at 21:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A377 in Exeter at 21:45 on Tuesday 3 May 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1983
- Tuesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71227, longitude -3.53727, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D210752
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 377
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 8 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198950D211946
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in Exeter, 16 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D211572
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 20 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198150J651177
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 12 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200850D21B930
Slight
Van crash on the A377 in Exeter, 3 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D211751
Slight
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A377 in Exeter, 23 April 2025
2 m awayRef 2025501581117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- 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 198350D210752 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.