Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 7 July 1986 at 18:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Devon at 18:35 on Monday 7 July 1986. The 25-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
- 7 Jul 1986
- Monday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87568, longitude -3.32418, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650D421241
- Council area
- Mid 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
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 198650D421241 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 1986.