A376 crash in East Devon on 25 July 1997 at 07:33 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A376 in East Devon at 07:33 on Friday 25 July 1997. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1997
- Friday, 07:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70722, longitude -3.45426, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750D212690
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 24 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199350D211501
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A376 in East Devon, 26 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200050D215103
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on the A376 in East Devon, 19 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025501675738
Serious
Car crash on the A376 in East Devon, 13 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199250D211979
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A376 in East Devon, 21 July 2021
16 m awayRef 2021501084959
Fatal
Honda Prelude crash on the A376 in East Devon, 6 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199950D214593
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 199750D212690 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 1997.