A38 crash in the South Hams on 21 June 1981 at 10:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 10:45 on Sunday 21 June 1981. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1981
- Sunday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38331, longitude -3.97617, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150G450476
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 23 April 2001
14 m awayRef 200150E512430
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 4 February 2002
22 m awayRef 200250E510702
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 20 August 1996
22 m awayRef 199650E531991
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 10 March 2016
34 m awayRef 201650JI2I002
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 24 August 2009
42 m awayRef 200950JI2I015
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 30 November 1998
50 m awayRef 199850E512821
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198150G450476 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1981.