Serious C road crash in Torbay TQ5 on 14 April 1982 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on a C road in Torbay at 19:00 on Wednesday 14 April 1982. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Apr 1982
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39527, longitude -3.56864, in the TQ5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brixham.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198250K720470
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1995.
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 7 December 1995
92 m awayRef 199550F212417
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 22 May 2025
98 m awayRef 2025501593327
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 10 April 1993
122 m awayRef 199350F270751
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Torbay, 31 July 1987
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198250K720470 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 1982.