Serious unclassified road crash in the South Hams TQ9 on 26 June 1982 at 17:52 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 17:52 on Saturday 26 June 1982. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 1982
- Saturday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42904, longitude -3.66944, in the TQ9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totnes.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250G510556
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2002.
Slight
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Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 22 July 2025
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Piaggio New Skipper crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 25 May 2005
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Ford Focus crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 23 August 2005
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 15 February 1997
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198250G510556 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1982.