B3212 crash in West Devon on 27 November 1983 at 17:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3212 in West Devon at 17:55 on Sunday 27 November 1983. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1983
- Sunday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55408, longitude -3.97215, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350E612467
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3212
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 1990.
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 20 November 1990
41 m awayRef 199050E612621
Slight
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 4 June 1979
319 m awayRef 197950G530440
Serious
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 31 October 1979
357 m awayRef 197950G530965
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 21 April 1996
379 m awayRef 199650E610920
Serious
Hyundai i30 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 30 March 2019
391 m awayRef 2019500830509
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 13 February 2009
400 m awayRef 200950JT2A004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198350E612467 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1983.