B3199 crash in Torbay on 30 November 1981 at 20:00 involving a lorry
A lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3199 in Torbay at 20:00 on Monday 30 November 1981. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1981
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46541, longitude -3.50896, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K701668
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3199
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 19 April 1985
10 m awayRef 198550F310664
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A380 in Torbay, 23 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200150F310635
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A379 in Torbay, 22 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199950F311590
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 11 February 2012
13 m awayRef 201250FT2F002
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A379 in Torbay, 25 June 2006
20 m awayRef 200650F31H712
Slight
Kawasaki BX 125 crash on the A379 in Torbay, 27 February 2023
42 m awayRef 2023501286116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198150K701668 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torbay road accident statistics for 1981.