Serious C road crash in Mid Devon EX5 on 4 April 1987 at 05:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Mid Devon at 05:40 on Saturday 4 April 1987. The 57-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Apr 1987
- Saturday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81507, longitude -3.43007, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750D420441
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1985.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 4 September 1985
100 m awayRef 198550D422141
Serious
Volvo 760 crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 14 April 1992
112 m awayRef 199250D420592
Slight
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 17 December 1994
180 m awayRef 199450D423130
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 6 June 1980
180 m awayRef 198050L910397
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 23 April 1997
212 m awayRef 199750D411262
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Devon, 3 September 1988
231 m awayRef 198850D421424
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 57, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198750D420441 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 1987.