A380 crash in Torbay on 1 July 1997 at 17:12 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A380 in Torbay at 17:12 on Tuesday 1 July 1997. The 18-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 1997
- Tuesday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43396, longitude -3.5878, in the TQ3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paignton.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750F211365
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 380
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 9 May 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A380 in Torbay, 9 May 2002
20 m awayRef 200250F212690
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A380 in Torbay, 20 December 1995
20 m awayRef 199550F212597
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A380 in Torbay, 15 October 2002
20 m awayRef 200250F216277
Slight
Car crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 13 May 1987
32 m awayRef 198750F210738
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3022 in Torbay, 6 April 1989
32 m awayRef 198950F210600
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A380 in Torbay, 17 November 2025
34 m awayRef 2025501672544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 199750F211365 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 1997.