B3196 crash in the South Hams on 17 August 1995 at 21:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3196 in the South Hams at 21:30 on Thursday 17 August 1995. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 1995
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35803, longitude -3.81625, in the PL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550F551583
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3196
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2008.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 1 December 2008
22 m awayRef 200850JK2J003
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 5 June 2002
102 m awayRef 200250F553305
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the B3196 in the South Hams, 22 May 2023
147 m awayRef 2023501321017
Serious
Suzuki crash on a C road in the South Hams, 28 May 1991
233 m awayRef 199150F550849
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 13 May 1987
261 m awayRef 198750F550771
Slight
Opel Manta crash on a C road in the South Hams, 4 November 1991
344 m awayRef 199150F551912
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 199550F551583 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 1995.