B3172 crash in East Devon on 14 March 1983 at 16:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3172 in East Devon at 16:00 on Monday 14 March 1983. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1983
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70432, longitude -3.06486, in the EX12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaton.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D340396
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3172
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 15 November 1995
20 m awayRef 199550D342509
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 15 July 2014
23 m awayRef 201450KN3H009
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 27 December 2025
26 m awayRef 2025501688371
Serious
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 26 September 1983
30 m awayRef 198350D341838
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 23 March 2014
42 m awayRef 201450KN3H004
Slight
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 2 October 1987
71 m awayRef 198750D341585
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198350D340396 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.