A30 crash in East Devon on 26 October 1995 at 16:12 involving a BMW K 1100 LT motorcycle
A BMW K 1100 LT motorcycle crashed on the A30 in East Devon at 16:12 on Thursday 26 October 1995. The 39-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 1995
- Thursday, 16:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW K 1100 LT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78068, longitude -3.25412, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550D352320
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1998.
Slight
Volkswagen Motor Caravan crash on the A30 in East Devon, 28 May 1998
54 m awayRef 199850D352922
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 26 October 1989
54 m awayRef 198950D351849
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in East Devon, 31 October 1997
54 m awayRef 199750D353978
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A30 in East Devon, 17 August 1991
58 m awayRef 199150D351424
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A30 in East Devon, 25 December 1985
60 m awayRef 198550D352560
Slight
Lorry crash on the A30 in East Devon, 21 June 1985
85 m awayRef 198550D351343
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW K 1100 LT
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,092 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (BMW K 1100 LT)
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 199550D352320 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 1995.