A386 crash in West Devon on 19 May 1987 at 14:00 involving a car
A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 14:00 on Tuesday 19 May 1987. The 19-year-old female rider of the motor scooter 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
- 19 May 1987
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81927, longitude -4.07261, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750C412446
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- 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
- C
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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2019.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 21 April 2019
23 m awayRef 2019500838872
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 24 February 1986
36 m awayRef 198650C510137
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 21 February 1984
36 m awayRef 198450C510069
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 6 December 1989
40 m awayRef 198950C511397
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A386 in West Devon, 31 July 1982
54 m awayRef 198250C510304
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A386 in West Devon, 4 September 1990
60 m awayRef 199050C510969
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)
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 198750C412446 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 1987.