Serious B3180 crash in East Devon on 20 August 2000 at 10:20 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the B3180 in East Devon at 10:20 on Sunday 20 August 2000. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Aug 2000
- Sunday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66302, longitude -3.37851, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050D314416
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3180
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2016.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 200050D314416 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 2000.