C road crash in East Devon EX12 on 8 September 1983 at 14:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in East Devon at 14:30 on Thursday 8 September 1983. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.715, longitude -3.06709, 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
- 198350D341684
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2011.
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 12 August 2011
27 m awayRef 201150KN3H012
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 21 June 2018
58 m awayRef 2018500306472
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 1 June 1990
213 m awayRef 199050D341021
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 20 April 1980
216 m awayRef 198050L800255
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in East Devon, 29 July 1985
224 m awayRef 198550D341468
Serious
Honda C90E crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 1 July 1992
252 m awayRef 199250D341072
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198350D341684 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.