A39 crash in North Devon on 3 July 1987 at 05:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A39 in North Devon at 05:45 on Friday 3 July 1987. The 40-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 1987
- Friday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04172, longitude -4.18438, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750C412681
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 21 November 1985
72 m awayRef 198550C410544
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 28 February 1996
81 m awayRef 199650C410604
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 10 October 1987
92 m awayRef 198750C413147
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 29 July 2013
100 m awayRef 201350CB2P003
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 24 February 1986
100 m awayRef 198650C410138
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 10 February 1988
108 m awayRef 198850C414148
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 198750C412681 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.