C road crash in West Devon EX20 on 19 December 1985 at 11:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in West Devon at 11:18 on Thursday 19 December 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 11:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79976, longitude -3.8979, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550C520604
- Council area
- West 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 10 July 2007
36 m awayRef 200750C51I216
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 23 July 1980
51 m awayRef 198050H260330
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 10 February 1984
58 m awayRef 198450C520046
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 19 April 1980
64 m awayRef 198050H260148
Serious
Volvo 265 crash on a C road in West Devon, 6 October 1995
76 m awayRef 199550C521347
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in West Devon, 21 July 1993
86 m awayRef 199350C520823
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198550C520604 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 1985.