A361 crash in Mid Devon on 13 August 1996 at 08:45 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Subaru Justy were involved in a crash on the A361 in Mid Devon at 08:45 on Tuesday 13 August 1996. The 47-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle 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
- 13 Aug 1996
- Tuesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Subaru Justy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96624, longitude -3.49523, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199650D412442
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 396
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 serious injury crash on 13 November 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 13 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198950D411978
Serious
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 26 October 1979
At the same spotRef 197950L900768
Slight
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 28 December 1984
20 m awayRef 198450D412416
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 12 November 1996
22 m awayRef 199650D413590
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 20 February 2015
25 m awayRef 201550KT3E001
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 9 February 2002
28 m awayRef 200250D410785
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Subaru Justy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,189 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 199650D412442 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 1996.