C road crash in West Devon EX20 on 20 April 1996 at 04:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on a C road in West Devon at 04:25 on Saturday 20 April 1996. The 33-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1996
- Saturday, 04:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72188, longitude -3.89249, 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
- 199650C511165
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1995.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 14 February 1995
22 m awayRef 199550C510194
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 29 July 1989
22 m awayRef 198950C510798
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 15 June 1986
91 m awayRef 198650C510560
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in West Devon, 28 April 1998
110 m awayRef 199850C512399
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 11 July 1986
190 m awayRef 198650C510672
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in West Devon, 31 March 1980
190 m awayRef 198050H260111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 199650C511165 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 1996.