A387 crash in Cornwall on 25 May 1983 at 19:00 involving a car
A car and two motorcycles were involved in a crash on the A387 in Cornwall at 19:00 on Wednesday 25 May 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 and a 19-year-old male passenger on vehicle 2 were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 1983
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.36084, longitude -4.45611, in the PL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Looe.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350B520643
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 387
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3253
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 1 November 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 1 November 1979
At the same spotRef 197950B161618
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 13 June 2011
20 m awayRef 201150BE2H012
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 29 May 1996
22 m awayRef 199650B521585
Slight
Keeway Superlight crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 24 June 2023
24 m awayRef 2023501323974
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A387 in Cornwall, 17 September 2014
30 m awayRef 201450BE2H016
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B3253 in Cornwall, 10 April 2011
30 m awayRef 201150BE2H007
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198350B520643 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 1983.