A38 crash in the South Hams on 17 August 1994 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A38 in the South Hams at 17:00 on Wednesday 17 August 1994. The 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 1994
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4184, longitude -3.83799, in the TQ10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199450F521900
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2014.
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 19 August 2014
13 m awayRef 201450JS2L009
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 31 July 2012
29 m awayRef 201250JS2L008
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 6 November 2011
46 m awayRef 201150JS2L009
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 15 July 2025
48 m awayRef 2025501616582
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 3 June 2012
50 m awayRef 201250JS2L004
Slight
Volvo crash on the B3372 in the South Hams, 1 December 2017
51 m awayRef 2017500249411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199450F521900 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 1994.