A38 crash in Teignbridge on 25 July 1981 at 17:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 17:40 on Saturday 25 July 1981. The 20-year-old female 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
- 25 Jul 1981
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.45755, longitude -3.79048, in the TQ11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150G850623
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in West Devon, 9 May 1979
At the same spotRef 197950G450336
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 3 November 1984
20 m awayRef 198450F452293
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 6 March 1996
20 m awayRef 199650F450413
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 2 August 2012
26 m awayRef 201250JA2E003
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 11 January 2005
28 m awayRef 200550F51A345
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 24 October 1984
30 m awayRef 198450F452183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 198150G850623 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Teignbridge road accident statistics for 1981.