Serious B3241 crash in Plymouth on 12 December 1985 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle, a car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B3241 in Plymouth at 16:00 on Thursday 12 December 1985. The 42-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.37489, longitude -4.16119, in the PL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.
Map of where the crash happened in Plymouth
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550E412474
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3241
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2006.
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 8 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200650E41F309
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3241 in Plymouth, 7 May 1981
22 m awayRef 198150E420627
Slight
Car crash on the B3241 in Plymouth, 16 May 1989
22 m awayRef 198950E411002
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 26 April 2010
36 m awayRef 201050ED2N017
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 6 May 2010
36 m awayRef 201050ED2N021
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Plymouth, 18 February 1997
41 m awayRef 199750E410402
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 3: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, 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 198550E412474 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.