A386 crash in West Devon on 24 September 1995 at 17:12 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A386 in West Devon at 17:12 on Sunday 24 September 1995. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1995
- Sunday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49218, longitude -4.08716, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199550E612304
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2006.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200650E61O565
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 15 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200050E610579
Serious
Honda crash on the A386 in West Devon, 17 July 2019
19 m awayRef 2019500878669
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A386 in West Devon, 20 October 2020
21 m awayRef 2020501005197
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 22 February 2023
27 m awayRef 2023501301771
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A386 in West Devon, 1 April 2014
28 m awayRef 201450JT2R003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 199550E612304 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 1995.