C road crash in North Devon EX34 on 18 May 1985 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in North Devon at 17:00 on Saturday 18 May 1985. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1985
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21061, longitude -4.11591, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ilfracombe.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C310156
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 12 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198550C310271
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 12 July 2009
32 m awayRef 200950CI2B016
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 September 2008
36 m awayRef 200850CI2B023
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 20 March 1998
40 m awayRef 199850C311511
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 27 May 1996
40 m awayRef 199650C311520
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A399 in North Devon, 8 May 1997
40 m awayRef 199750C311449
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent 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 198550C310156 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.