C road crash in East Devon EX12 on 18 August 1983 at 18:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in East Devon at 18:05 on Thursday 18 August 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 1983
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70715, longitude -3.07045, 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
- 198350D341568
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2013.
Slight
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Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in East Devon, 25 September 1996
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Slight
Dennis crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 23 March 2011
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Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 9 December 2019
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 7 June 1985
63 m awayRef 198550D340986
Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 May 2013
78 m awayRef 201350KN3H003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198350D341568 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.