C road crash in the South Hams PL7 on 8 January 1986 at 18:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in the South Hams at 18:35 on Wednesday 8 January 1986. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 1986
- Wednesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3879, longitude -3.98087, in the PL7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198650E510067
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2008.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 27 July 2008
141 m awayRef 200850JI4M007
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 24 July 2000
216 m awayRef 200050E533795
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 16 November 1994
233 m awayRef 199450E532905
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 21 September 1988
322 m awayRef 198850E531835
Slight
Nissan NV200 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 14 October 2025
361 m awayRef 2025501654417
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 27 July 1985
381 m awayRef 198550E511439
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, 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 198650E510067 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 1986.