B3175 crash in East Devon on 30 April 1985 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3175 in East Devon at 19:00 on Tuesday 30 April 1985. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 30 Apr 1985
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69209, longitude -3.23745, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D330710
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3175
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2021.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021501048856
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 3 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D332363
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 14 October 1996
14 m awayRef 199650D333183
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 18 January 1982
14 m awayRef 198250D330071
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A375 in East Devon, 21 May 2009
14 m awayRef 200950KS2G010
Serious
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 30 July 1985
14 m awayRef 198550D331409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 198550D330710 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.