B3212 crash in West Devon on 5 January 2001 at 18:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3212 in West Devon at 18:20 on Friday 5 January 2001. The 37-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2001
- Friday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49224, longitude -4.08511, in the PL20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckland Monachorum, West Devon, PL20 6HX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200150E610004
- Council area
- West 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
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3212
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2013.
Slight
Land Rover 88 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 1 December 2013
2 m awayRef 201350JT2R017
Slight
Seat Arona crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 18 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022501181490
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A386 in West Devon, 14 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199350E611979
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 18 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200450E61Q466
Slight
Car crash on the B3212 in West Devon, 23 December 1985
22 m awayRef 198550E612573
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 31 October 1986
40 m awayRef 198650E612148
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200150E610004 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 2001.