Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 9 May 2005 at 08:00 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 08:00 on Monday 9 May 2005. The 24-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 May 2005
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08947, longitude -4.00076, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200550C21F337
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 31 October 1987
14 m awayRef 198750C213252
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 22 May 1987
22 m awayRef 198750C212468
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 23 March 1981
41 m awayRef 198150H560128
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 13 February 1984
58 m awayRef 198450C210056
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 29 June 1981
95 m awayRef 198150H560310
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 10 June 1984
98 m awayRef 198450C210312
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200550C21F337 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 2005.