C road crash in Exeter EX4 on 13 September 1983 at 10:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Exeter at 10:15 on Tuesday 13 September 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1983
- Tuesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72065, longitude -3.54917, 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
- 198350D211705
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 10 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198850D210714
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Exeter, 2 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200050D212367
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 11 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200250D216257
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 14 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198150J650898
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Exeter, 11 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198150J650877
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 23 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200450D21G620
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198350D211705 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.