B3344 crash in Teignbridge on 18 December 1986 at 17:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3344 in Teignbridge at 17:40 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61793, longitude -3.58424, 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
- 198650F442220
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2011.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 26 May 2011
72 m awayRef 201150JC2B007
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 16 October 2006
81 m awayRef 200650F44M888
Slight
Datsun Bluebird crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 13 September 1992
102 m awayRef 199250F441552
Serious
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 20 February 1998
117 m awayRef 199850F441039
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the A38 in Teignbridge, 11 November 2023
153 m awayRef 2023501373409
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3344 in Teignbridge, 16 September 1999
156 m awayRef 199950F445483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198650F442220 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 1986.