A381 crash in Teignbridge on 4 August 1981 at 11:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A381 in Teignbridge at 11:10 on Tuesday 4 August 1981. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 4 Aug 1981
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.5455, longitude -3.5732, in the TQ12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198150K861052
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 381
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 30 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198350F410180
Slight
Honda C70C crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 23 December 1992
20 m awayRef 199250F412316
Serious
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 26 April 1980
22 m awayRef 198050K830479
Slight
Lorry crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 16 July 1981
22 m awayRef 198150K830957
Serious
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 22 December 1985
28 m awayRef 198550F422528
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 20 February 2022
51 m awayRef 2022501156004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 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 198150K861052 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.