B3231 crash in North Devon on 1 August 2002 at 12:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3231 in North Devon at 12:00 on Thursday 1 August 2002. The 20-year-old male 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2002
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11115, longitude -4.18129, in the EX33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Braunton.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200250C235779
- Council area
- North 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
- 3231
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2021.
Slight
Honda CBR crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 15 May 2021
3 m awayRef 2021501051145
Fatal
Mazda 323 crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 3 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199850C235923
Slight
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 30 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198850C234314
Slight
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 24 February 1980
22 m awayRef 198050H560065
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 18 August 1979
22 m awayRef 197950H560372
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 4 November 2021
29 m awayRef 2021501112707
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 200250C235779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2002.