A361 crash in North Devon on 12 December 1985 at 20:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A361 in North Devon at 20:40 on Thursday 12 December 1985. The 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 25-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07862, longitude -4.05406, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C210582
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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 7 April 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A361 in North Devon, 7 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200650C21E171
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 30 June 1982
At the same spotRef 198250C210237
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 2 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198050H560587
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A361 in North Devon, 6 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198450C210004
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A39 in North Devon, 15 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024501534915
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A39 in North Devon, 28 October 2025
5 m awayRef 2025501660302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198550C210582 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.