B3396 crash in Plymouth on 29 October 1985 at 17:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3396 in Plymouth at 17:40 on Tuesday 29 October 1985. A 14-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car 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
- 29 Oct 1985
- Tuesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.39171, longitude -4.18053, in the PL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550E412217
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3396
- 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
- Unclassified
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 10 February 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 10 February 1980
At the same spotRef 198050E420186
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 29 August 1980
At the same spotRef 198050E421078
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 29 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200650E41K748
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 22 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025501581008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3042 in Plymouth, 13 October 1980
10 m awayRef 198050E421296
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B3396 in Plymouth, 19 April 2001
14 m awayRef 200150E410860
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 2 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198550E412217 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 1985.