A393 crash in Cornwall on 14 March 1985 at 22:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A393 in Cornwall at 22:55 on Thursday 14 March 1985. The 22-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 junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1985
- Thursday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.22715, longitude -5.22228, in the TR15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redruth.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550A220426
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 393
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3297
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 serious injury crash on 24 April 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 24 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198750A220575
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 7 June 1980
At the same spotRef 198050A020988
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 6 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199050A220345
Slight
Car crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 26 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198650A220350
Slight
Car crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 16 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198750A222035
Slight
Car crash on the A393 in Cornwall, 12 September 1981
At the same spotRef 198150A021793
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 198550A220426 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 1985.