A381 crash in the South Hams on 26 January 1985 at 15:05 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A381 in the South Hams at 15:05 on Saturday 26 January 1985. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1985
- Saturday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.28409, longitude -3.77638, in the TQ7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsbridge.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F550132
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 381
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 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 20 May 1988.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 20 May 1988
10 m awayRef 198850F550894
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 15 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200050F550552
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 4 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200150F557107
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the South Hams, 19 June 1994
14 m awayRef 199450F551442
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 6 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200750F55H932
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 6 November 2018
23 m awayRef 2018500801726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198550F550132 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1985.