B3260 crash in West Devon on 30 July 1992 at 22:00 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B3260 in West Devon at 22:00 on Thursday 30 July 1992. The 21-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, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 1992
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72153, longitude -4.03571, in the EX20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199250C510648
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 April 1980.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A30 in West Devon, 24 April 1980
28 m awayRef 198050H260159
Slight
Lorry crash on the A30 in West Devon, 9 June 1987
50 m awayRef 198750C512556
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 15 July 1988
99 m awayRef 198850C514750
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 23 September 1983
100 m awayRef 198350C510475
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 16 April 1987
128 m awayRef 198750C512326
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3260 in West Devon, 5 April 2010
130 m awayRef 201050JO2I003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 199250C510648 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 1992.