C road crash in Cornwall TR4 on 2 April 1981 at 22:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cornwall at 22:00 on Thursday 2 April 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1981
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.28692, longitude -5.23404, 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
- 198150A090587
- Council area
- Cornwall
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2018.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 22 November 2018
18 m awayRef 2018500802451
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 29 June 2025
33 m awayRef 2025501609291
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 16 August 2022
33 m awayRef 2022501209792
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on a C road in Cornwall, 4 January 1996
100 m awayRef 199650A410037
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 7 November 2009
191 m awayRef 200950GR2A021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 9 October 1984
206 m awayRef 198450A421914
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198150A090587 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.