C road crash in Cornwall PL25 on 24 August 1987 at 11:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Cornwall at 11:20 on Monday 24 August 1987. The 24-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 1987
- Monday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.33809, longitude -4.78704, in the PL25 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Austell.
Map of where the crash happened in Cornwall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750B411087
- Council area
- Cornwall
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3061
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2007.
Slight
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Slight
Fiat Panda crash on a C road in Cornwall, 2 August 2010
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 27 March 2019
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3061 in Cornwall, 8 November 1984
22 m awayRef 198450B411698
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Cornwall, 5 March 2003
22 m awayRef 200350B41B895
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3061 in Cornwall, 24 June 1988
22 m awayRef 198850B410893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 198750B411087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cornwall road accident statistics for 1987.