Serious A35 crash in East Devon on 18 July 1983 at 08:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A35 in East Devon at 08:20 on Monday 18 July 1983. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 1983
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7954, longitude -3.13362, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D351285
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2002.
Slight
Rover crash on the A35 in East Devon, 21 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200250D357752
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 26 December 1987
22 m awayRef 198750D352118
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A35 in East Devon, 11 August 2017
48 m awayRef 2017500213553
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A35 in East Devon, 31 August 2008
82 m awayRef 200850KH2C003
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in East Devon, 12 December 1985
104 m awayRef 198550D352520
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A35 in East Devon, 15 May 2000
112 m awayRef 200050D352546
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198350D351285 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.