B3232 crash in North Devon on 2 October 1985 at 08:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the B3232 in North Devon at 08:40 on Wednesday 2 October 1985. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04773, longitude -4.0915, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C210436
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3232
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 20 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198450C210559
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B3232 in Torridge, 7 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200050C216810
Slight
Bus crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 3 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200150C214682
Serious
Van crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 12 July 1984
22 m awayRef 198450C210301
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 17 September 2018
23 m awayRef 2018500330147
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3232 in North Devon, 24 July 1999
50 m awayRef 199950C214308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198550C210436 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1985.