B3266 crash in Cornwall on 2 August 1981 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3266 in Cornwall at 22:00 on Sunday 2 August 1981. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1981
- Sunday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54005, longitude -4.72935, in the PL30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150B191001
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3266
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A3266 in Cornwall, 30 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199950B310422
Slight
Car crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 7 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198150B191361
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 30 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199350B312678
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 24 May 2008
22 m awayRef 200850BB2B001
Slight
Car crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 11 March 1986
50 m awayRef 198650B310292
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3266 in Cornwall, 21 February 2001
50 m awayRef 200150B310665
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198150B191001 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.