B3172 crash in East Devon on 30 October 1985 at 15:45 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3172 in East Devon at 15:45 on Wednesday 30 October 1985. The 13-year-old male cyclist 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 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70435, longitude -3.06161, in the EX12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D342121
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3172
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 13 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198650D340584
Slight
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 19 March 1983
10 m awayRef 198350D340477
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 17 August 2005
14 m awayRef 200550D34K633
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 4 November 2019
14 m awayRef 2019500904306
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 8 October 2001
20 m awayRef 200150D346243
Serious
Car crash on the B3172 in East Devon, 24 December 1989
22 m awayRef 198950D342298
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, 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 198550D342121 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.