Serious B3263 crash in Cornwall on 13 August 1983 at 12:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3263 in Cornwall at 12:05 on Saturday 13 August 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 1983
- Saturday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7011, longitude -4.64947, in the PL35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350B711082
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3263
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2017.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 5 August 2017
60 m awayRef 2017500214027
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 7 June 2001
61 m awayRef 200150B722061
Slight
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 2 September 1993
100 m awayRef 199350B721796
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 18 April 1987
388 m awayRef 198750B720485
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 8 October 2010
703 m awayRef 201050BC2A001
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B3263 in Cornwall, 29 May 2025
1.1 km awayRef 2025501596535
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198350B711082 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.