A386 crash in the South Hams on 12 July 2005 at 19:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A386 in the South Hams at 19:40 on Tuesday 12 July 2005. The 42-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 28-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2005
- Tuesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.4401, longitude -4.10831, in the PL6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Plymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bickleigh & Cornwood, South Hams, PL6 7FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550E21I442
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2015.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 23 April 2015
30 m awayRef 201550EL2O003
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A386 in the South Hams, 7 July 2003
40 m awayRef 200350E21H869
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 25 May 1979
41 m awayRef 197950G530410
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A386 in Plymouth, 21 October 2005
50 m awayRef 200550E21N591
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 10 December 2023
52 m awayRef 2023501386074
Serious
Car crash on a C road in the South Hams, 16 February 1983
70 m awayRef 198350E210300
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200550E21I442 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 2005.