A376 crash in East Devon on 17 March 1985 at 11:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A376 in East Devon at 11:10 on Sunday 17 March 1985. The 27-year-old male rider and a 23-year-old female passenger were 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
- 17 Mar 1985
- Sunday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.62179, longitude -3.39437, in the EX8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D310422
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2024.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 19 March 2024
7 m awayRef 2024501423751
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 30 August 1983
22 m awayRef 198350D311621
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 31 October 1989
58 m awayRef 198950D211937
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 21 December 1983
58 m awayRef 198350D312482
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 February 1998
72 m awayRef 199850D310614
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A376 in East Devon, 13 September 1992
85 m awayRef 199250D311515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 198550D310422 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.