B3181 crash in Mid Devon on 15 May 1983 at 01:30 involving a car
A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon at 01:30 on Sunday 15 May 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1983
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85418, longitude -3.39376, in the EX15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cullompton.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350D420871
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 21 April 1993.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 21 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199350D420906
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 26 November 1980
At the same spotRef 198050L910960
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 26 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D421167
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 4 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D420002
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 26 May 2023
1 m awayRef 2023501318877
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 20 June 2019
4 m awayRef 2019500856372
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)
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 198350D420871 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1983.