C road crash in East Devon EX14 on 7 May 1985 at 08:17 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in East Devon at 08:17 on Tuesday 7 May 1985. The 48-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 1985
- Tuesday, 08:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8451, longitude -3.22573, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D350746
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 serious injury crash on 18 April 1987.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 18 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198750D350510
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 15 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198550D352448
Fatal
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 31 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200250D353249
Fatal
Peugeot 305 crash on a C road in East Devon, 11 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199250D351962
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 25 January 2007
14 m awayRef 200750D35A936
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 26 June 2025
16 m awayRef 2025501608228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, 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 198550D350746 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.