B3207 crash in the South Hams on 5 July 1981 at 01:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3207 in the South Hams at 01:00 on Sunday 5 July 1981. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 1981
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35305, longitude -3.63683, in the TQ6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150G490520
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 May 2021.
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 12 May 2021
19 m awayRef 2021501050322
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 27 January 2000
22 m awayRef 200050F530588
Slight
Car crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 21 October 1986
22 m awayRef 198650F531731
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3207 in the South Hams, 4 May 1981
30 m awayRef 198150G490326
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 11 August 2025
31 m awayRef 2025501627904
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A3122 in the South Hams, 5 November 1999
42 m awayRef 199950F532708
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198150G490520 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.