Unclassified road crash in West Devon EX21 on 1 December 1999 at 16:30 involving a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Devon at 16:30 on Wednesday 1 December 1999. The 26-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR750 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1999
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki ZR750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75499, longitude -4.21516, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199950C517113
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZR750
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 738 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZR750)
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 199950C517113 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 1999.