Serious A383 crash in Teignbridge on 6 November 1981 at 19:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A383 in Teignbridge at 19:15 on Friday 6 November 1981. The 69-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 1981
- Friday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53259, longitude -3.62258, in the TQ12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton Abbot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K831572
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 383
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 16 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198750F412356
Serious
Car crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 17 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198050K830304
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 9 May 2014
18 m awayRef 201450JN2P006
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 31 May 2014
19 m awayRef 201450JN2P008
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 3 November 2012
20 m awayRef 201250JN2O009
Serious
Citroen CX crash on the A383 in Teignbridge, 10 July 1990
20 m awayRef 199050F411239
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 69, 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 198150K831572 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.