A376 crash in East Devon on 16 September 1985 at 21:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 21:50 on Monday 16 September 1985. The 21-year-old male driver of the car and the 21-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1985
- Monday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64279, longitude -3.41281, in the EX8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D311775
- 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
- 40 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 18 July 1981
10 m awayRef 198150L760508
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A376 in East Devon, 26 February 2020
15 m awayRef 2020500937744
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A376 in East Devon, 17 February 1992
20 m awayRef 199250D310246
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A376 in East Devon, 19 August 1995
20 m awayRef 199550D311735
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A376 in East Devon, 1 April 2006
45 m awayRef 200650D31D809
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A376 in East Devon, 7 February 2025
69 m awayRef 2025501551977
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198550D311775 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.