A38 crash in Teignbridge on 27 April 1985 at 13:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A38 in Teignbridge at 13:15 on Saturday 27 April 1985. The 19-year-old male rider and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 1985
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63014, longitude -3.57221, in the TQ13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F440698
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 slight injury crash on 22 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 22 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198850F441941
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 9 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200150F445667
Serious
Nissan 350 crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 24 October 2025
29 m awayRef 2025501658502
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 25 December 2006
36 m awayRef 200650F44Q575
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 27 December 2012
43 m awayRef 201250JC2B025
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 6 June 1986
60 m awayRef 198650F440753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198550F440698 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 1985.