B3180 crash in East Devon on 5 October 1985 at 08:30 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3180 in East Devon at 08:30 on Saturday 5 October 1985. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63896, longitude -3.40265, 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
- 198550D311909
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 10 October 1981
22 m awayRef 198150L750786
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in East Devon, 3 December 1992
22 m awayRef 199250D312137
Slight
Suzuki Samurai crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 7 August 2002
63 m awayRef 200250D314848
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 7 May 1985
63 m awayRef 198550D310763
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 8 February 1985
85 m awayRef 198550D310200
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 October 1994
100 m awayRef 199450D312484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198550D311909 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.