A374 crash in Plymouth on 11 January 1983 at 18:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A374 in Plymouth at 18:05 on Tuesday 11 January 1983. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 1983
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.36972, longitude -4.15392, in the PL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350E310053
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 374
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3244
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 1 June 1980
At the same spotRef 198050E350679
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 22 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E350683
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 17 September 1979
At the same spotRef 197950E351285
Serious
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 5 January 1979
At the same spotRef 197950E350031
Serious
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 16 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198350E311315
Slight
Car crash on the A374 in Plymouth, 9 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198150E351265
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198350E310053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Plymouth road accident statistics for 1983.