Serious B3207 crash in the South Hams on 3 June 1981 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3207 in the South Hams at 17:00 on Wednesday 3 June 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jun 1981
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.34826, longitude -3.5997, in the TQ6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150G490405
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3207
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 5 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198650F531447
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 7 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199850F531382
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 27 September 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500800435
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 29 October 2019
5 m awayRef 2019500913702
Slight
Car crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 4 December 1988
20 m awayRef 198850F532445
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 16 November 2010
22 m awayRef 201050JH2H013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198150G490405 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.