Serious C road crash in East Devon EX13 on 27 April 1985 at 13:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in East Devon at 13:55 on Saturday 27 April 1985. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Apr 1985
- Saturday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7949, longitude -3.01215, in the EX13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550D360688
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 170 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 21 August 1983
170 m awayRef 198350D361543
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 20 December 2001
180 m awayRef 200150D368079
Serious
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 19 September 1988
262 m awayRef 198850D361522
Slight
Seat Leon crash on a C road in East Devon, 27 July 2020
483 m awayRef 2020500979502
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 3 June 2014
561 m awayRef 201450KA2B005
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 2 September 1990
590 m awayRef 199050D361691
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198550D360688 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.