A379 crash in the South Hams on 23 April 1987 at 16:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A379 in the South Hams at 16:05 on Thursday 23 April 1987. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 1987
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.28307, longitude -3.77803, in the TQ7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsbridge.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198750F550627
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2015.
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 18 October 2015
8 m awayRef 201550JK2A011
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 4 July 1980
14 m awayRef 198050G480501
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 27 February 1991
14 m awayRef 199150F550346
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 23 March 2018
18 m awayRef 2018500283384
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 21 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199950F552262
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 4 November 2002
20 m awayRef 200250F556698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198750F550627 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1987.