Serious B3392 crash in the South Hams on 20 April 1984 at 20:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3392 in the South Hams at 20:00 on Friday 20 April 1984. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Apr 1984
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.33507, longitude -3.86892, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198450F550633
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3392
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2008.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3392 in the South Hams, 20 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200850JK2B003
Slight
Car crash on the B3392 in the South Hams, 26 May 1985
22 m awayRef 198550F551006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 17 July 2003
40 m awayRef 200350F55I363
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the B3329 in the South Hams, 18 July 1998
50 m awayRef 199850F554140
Slight
Car crash on the B3392 in the South Hams, 7 August 1985
51 m awayRef 198550F551468
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3392 in the South Hams, 10 December 1986
61 m awayRef 198650F552143
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 198450F550633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1984.