Serious C road crash in Cornwall TR3 on 24 June 1981 at 22:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Cornwall at 22:20 on Wednesday 24 June 1981. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 1981
- Wednesday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.18599, longitude -5.17509, in the TR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150A111173
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 84 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2021.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 May 2021
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Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Cornwall, 25 January 1996
92 m awayRef 199650A510181
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 20 October 2021
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Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cornwall, 20 June 1979
130 m awayRef 197950A111018
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cornwall, 3 August 1989
156 m awayRef 198950A211153
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Cornwall, 24 February 1983
170 m awayRef 198350A510316
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, 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 198150A111173 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.