B3179 crash in East Devon on 6 December 1985 at 15:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3179 in East Devon at 15:50 on Friday 6 December 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 1985
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67429, longitude -3.40413, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D312388
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3179
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3281
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 June 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 6 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D310983
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 17 June 2025
3 m awayRef 2025501614202
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 5 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017500202027
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 15 July 2019
9 m awayRef 2019500864137
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 24 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198250D310629
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3179 in East Devon, 27 July 2024
11 m awayRef 2024501472760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198550D312388 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.