B3176 crash in East Devon on 11 June 1985 at 21:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3176 in East Devon at 21:00 on Tuesday 11 June 1985. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 1985
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69416, longitude -3.25407, in the EX10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D331056
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3176
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 24 August 1984
10 m awayRef 198450D331483
Slight
Car crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 4 June 1988
36 m awayRef 198850D330908
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 8 May 1979
36 m awayRef 197950L810313
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 19 January 1979
36 m awayRef 197950L810027
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 10 February 1990
73 m awayRef 199050D330284
Serious
Volkswagen LT 31 crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 23 July 1993
82 m awayRef 199350D331813
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, 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 198550D331056 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.