A3121 crash in the South Hams on 9 September 2000 at 16:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A3121 in the South Hams at 16:25 on Saturday 9 September 2000. The 27-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2000
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.41287, longitude -3.83066, in the TQ10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200050F524773
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3121
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 158 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B3210 in the South Hams, 16 August 1979
158 m awayRef 197950G510699
Serious
Scooter crash on the B3210 in the South Hams, 15 February 1988
170 m awayRef 198850F520259
Slight
Car crash on the B3210 in the South Hams, 30 May 1984
197 m awayRef 198450F410935
Serious
Car crash on the B3210 in the South Hams, 21 October 1988
201 m awayRef 198850F522133
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 27 October 2021
207 m awayRef 2021501119589
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 25 November 2012
209 m awayRef 201250JS2K011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 200050F524773 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2000.