B3227 crash in North Devon on 10 October 1987 at 11:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3227 in North Devon at 11:25 on Saturday 10 October 1987. The 17-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1987
- Saturday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99591, longitude -3.9847, in the EX37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750C243141
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3227
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 13 September 2015
17 m awayRef 201550CS2G002
Slight
Honda ST1100L crash on the A377 in North Devon, 21 September 1999
22 m awayRef 199950C245626
Slight
HGV crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 11 May 2010
41 m awayRef 201050CS2G002
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B3227 in North Devon, 1 April 2019
65 m awayRef 2019500833276
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the A377 in North Devon, 25 September 2023
80 m awayRef 2023501356625
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A377 in North Devon, 15 October 2023
85 m awayRef 2023501363112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, 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 198750C243141 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 1987.