Serious unclassified road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 4 May 1987 at 11:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torbay at 11:35 on Monday 4 May 1987. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 May 1987
- Monday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.46872, longitude -3.52358, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750F311002
- 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
- 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
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 17 October 1989
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 28 December 1994
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, 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 198750F311002 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.