Serious A376 crash in East Devon on 14 June 1985 at 22:54 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A376 in East Devon at 22:54 on Friday 14 June 1985. The 26-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jun 1985
- Friday, 22:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.689, longitude -3.44393, in the EX3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D211049
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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 9 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 9 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D210794
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 20 February 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D320273
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 4 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198250D211113
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 16 February 1980
At the same spotRef 198050L760115
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 4 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197950L760146
Serious
Van crash on the A376 in East Devon, 15 February 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D210257
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, 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 198550D211049 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1985.