Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ4 on 29 August 1987 at 11:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:55 on Saturday 29 August 1987. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Aug 1987
- Saturday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42578, longitude -3.57401, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750F211591
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, 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 198750F211591 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torbay road accident statistics for 1987.