Serious B3357 crash in West Devon on 12 July 1988 at 14:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3357 in West Devon at 14:45 on Tuesday 12 July 1988. A 21-year-old female passenger 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
- 12 Jul 1988
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.55011, longitude -3.99909, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198850E611237
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3357
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 19 June 1983
20 m awayRef 198350E611120
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 22 June 1981
99 m awayRef 198150G530483
Serious
Audi S3 crash on the B3257 in West Devon, 8 August 2018
132 m awayRef 2018500320851
Serious
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 3 June 1989
152 m awayRef 198950E611038
Serious
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 21 November 1989
272 m awayRef 198950E612390
Slight
Car crash on the B3357 in West Devon, 28 November 1998
305 m awayRef 199850E612812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, 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 198850E611237 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 1988.