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A28 crash in Exeter on 16 July 1998 at 11:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A28 in Exeter at 11:20 on Thursday 16 July 1998. A 13-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Jul 1998
Thursday, 11:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6652, longitude -3.53942, in the EX6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Exeter

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199850D213997
Council area
Exeter
Police force
Devon and Cornwall
Highway authority
Devon

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
28
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 September 2005.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 13, 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 199850D213997 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 1998.