B3344 crash in Teignbridge on 24 October 1985 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge at 17:00 on Thursday 24 October 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60494, longitude -3.60019, in the TQ13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chudleigh.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F442097
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3344
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2018.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 10 September 2018
4 m awayRef 2018500330342
Serious
Car crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 20 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198550F441431
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 27 November 2015
20 m awayRef 201550JC2B014
Serious
Car crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 5 November 1989
28 m awayRef 198950F442197
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 27 June 1989
28 m awayRef 198950F441194
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 3 January 2008
28 m awayRef 200850F44A032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198550F442097 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.