Serious B3180 crash in East Devon on 24 June 1983 at 23:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 23:15 on Friday 24 June 1983. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 1983
- Friday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73893, longitude -3.32896, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D351118
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 24 September 1982.
Slight
Van crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 24 September 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D351667
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 25 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D351771
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 6 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198450D350530
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200050D356027
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 July 2019
14 m awayRef 2019500866143
Slight
Scania crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 7 January 2014
20 m awayRef 201450KO2F001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 198350D351118 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.