B3210 crash in Teignbridge on 1 May 1983 at 12:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3210 in Teignbridge at 12:00 on Sunday 1 May 1983. The 22-year-old male rider and a 22-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1983
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42053, longitude -3.78796, in the TQ9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198350F520784
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3210
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2012.
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 198350F520784 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Teignbridge road accident statistics for 1983.