A381 crash in Teignbridge on 30 August 1997 at 06:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A381 in Teignbridge at 06:40 on Saturday 30 August 1997. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 1997
- Saturday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.52435, longitude -3.62018, in the TQ12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton Abbot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750F411911
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 381
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 24 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200250F416033
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 30 October 1980
20 m awayRef 198050K831531
Slight
Car crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 28 February 1983
22 m awayRef 198350F410357
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 28 April 2008
28 m awayRef 200850JN2N003
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 21 November 2011
33 m awayRef 201150JN2N037
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A381 in Teignbridge, 9 March 2003
45 m awayRef 200350F41C886
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 199750F411911 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Teignbridge road accident statistics for 1997.