B3212 crash in Exeter on 25 February 1985 at 19:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3212 in Exeter at 19:35 on Monday 25 February 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 1985
- Monday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72278, longitude -3.52416, in the EX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D210277
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3212
- 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
- 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 24 November 2010.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 24 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201050DE2I084
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 21 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200450D21L562
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 21 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200850DE2J027
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 14 October 2015
1 m awayRef 201550DE2J033
Serious
Suzuki Jimny crash on the B3212 in Exeter, 4 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017500183321
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 21 February 2016
3 m awayRef 201650DE2I007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 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 198550D210277 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1985.