C road crash in Cornwall TR4 on 14 August 1981 at 09:11 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 09:11 on Friday 14 August 1981. The 31-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 1981
- Friday, 09:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.25633, longitude -5.159, in the TR4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150A081573
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2016.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 July 2016
13 m awayRef 2016500108726
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 9 March 1984
22 m awayRef 198450A410354
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 1 February 1984
41 m awayRef 198450A410151
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 21 April 1979
41 m awayRef 197950A080633
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 15 October 1983
41 m awayRef 198350A412120
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3047 in Cornwall, 12 September 2001
50 m awayRef 200150A413696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 31, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198150A081573 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 1981.