B3250 crash in Plymouth on 25 December 1987 at 00:04 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3250 in Plymouth at 00:04 on Friday 25 December 1987. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1987
- Friday, 00:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.3767, longitude -4.13624, in the PL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750E312335
- Council area
- Plymouth
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3250
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto signal part defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 5 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E350870
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 2 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199750E311048
Slight
Lorry crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 9 September 1982
At the same spotRef 198250E351211
Serious
Toyota Starlet crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 2 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200150E310986
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3250 in Plymouth, 7 January 2025
2 m awayRef 2025501539352
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on an unclassified road in Plymouth, 23 May 2016
6 m awayRef 2016500083726
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198750E312335 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Plymouth road accident statistics for 1987.