A376 crash in East Devon on 16 March 1987 at 07:57 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A376 in East Devon at 07:57 on Monday 16 March 1987. The 18-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1987
- Monday, 07:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66013, longitude -3.31457, in the EX9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750D320335
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 10 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198650D320382
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 29 September 2012
7 m awayRef 201250KE3I004
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 16 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200550D32N425
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 14 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199450D320660
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the B3178 in East Devon, 24 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025501646743
Slight
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 24 July 1987
14 m awayRef 198750D321109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198750D320335 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1987.