B3176 crash in East Devon on 25 June 1985 at 08:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3176 in East Devon at 08:30 on Tuesday 25 June 1985. The 16-year-old male rider 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
- 25 Jun 1985
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73991, longitude -3.27287, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D351114
- 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 25 October 1983
22 m awayRef 198350D352051
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 22 March 1991
82 m awayRef 199150D350544
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 18 October 2015
83 m awayRef 201550KO2J015
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 13 July 2025
116 m awayRef 2025501615534
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 18 June 1985
190 m awayRef 198550D351253
Serious
Car crash on the B3176 in East Devon, 7 August 1986
193 m awayRef 198650D351448
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198550D351114 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.