B3219 crash in West Devon on 15 April 1987 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3219 in West Devon at 16:30 on Wednesday 15 April 1987. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1987
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77137, longitude -3.88541, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750C522331
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3219
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 August 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 29 August 1980
10 m awayRef 198050H260391
Slight
Car crash on the B3219 in West Devon, 25 June 1988
22 m awayRef 198850C514676
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A3124 in West Devon, 18 December 2003
40 m awayRef 200350C51R422
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 17 May 1986
67 m awayRef 198650C510407
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A3124 in West Devon, 5 August 2006
73 m awayRef 200650C51J670
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in West Devon, 23 November 1982
132 m awayRef 198250C510579
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 198750C522331 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1987.