B3199 crash in Torbay on 17 December 1981 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3199 in Torbay at 17:50 on Thursday 17 December 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 dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47749, longitude -3.51301, 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
- 198150K701750
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 1981.
Serious
Van crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 21 April 1981
At the same spotRef 198150K700508
Slight
Car crash on the B3199 in Torbay, 21 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198750F312169
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198150K701750 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.