B3180 crash in East Devon on 22 January 1985 at 08:57 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 08:57 on Tuesday 22 January 1985. The 19-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 1985
- Tuesday, 08:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68253, longitude -3.36899, 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
- 198550D320096
- 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
- 60 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1985.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 22 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D320092
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 21 October 2008
14 m awayRef 200850KE3M022
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 December 2025
22 m awayRef 2025501679562
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 20 August 2006
22 m awayRef 200650D31K351
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 3 August 1990
28 m awayRef 199050D311513
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B3180 in East Devon, 4 March 2011
62 m awayRef 201150KE3L004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198550D320096 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.