B3175 crash in East Devon on 8 March 1983 at 12:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3175 in East Devon at 12:15 on Tuesday 8 March 1983. The 83-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 1983
- Tuesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68634, longitude -3.2373, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D330348
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3175
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 4 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199650D333867
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A375 in East Devon, 30 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025501689338
Slight
Scooter crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 11 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D330588
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 21 June 1981
10 m awayRef 198150L810435
Serious
Van crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 4 August 1983
10 m awayRef 198350D331428
Slight
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 18 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201050KS2H001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 83, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198350D330348 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1983.