A390 crash in West Devon on 25 September 1985 at 09:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A390 in West Devon at 09:00 on Wednesday 25 September 1985. The 27-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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 1985
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.52884, longitude -4.21069, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550E611845
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 390
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A390 in West Devon, 21 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199750E611798
Slight
Scania crash on the A390 in West Devon, 12 November 2018
6 m awayRef 2018500801463
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A390 in West Devon, 11 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198150G530864
Slight
Car crash on the A390 in West Devon, 16 June 1982
10 m awayRef 198250G530504
Slight
Car crash on the A390 in West Devon, 21 August 1980
10 m awayRef 198050G530679
Slight
Car crash on the A390 in West Devon, 18 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198350E610295
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198550E611845 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1985.