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A3072 crash in Mid Devon on 19 June 2006 at 19:30 involving a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle

A lorry and a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3072 in Mid Devon at 19:30 on Monday 19 June 2006. The 43-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Jun 2006
Monday, 19:30
Vehicles
2
Lorry and Kawasaki ER500
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80103, longitude -3.82634, in the EX17 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200650D43H445
Council area
Mid Devon
Police force
Devon and Cornwall
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Devon

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
3072
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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
5%
Estimated chance it was slight
95%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over

    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact

  • Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER500

    Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    43 years
    Engine capacity
    500 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 43, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER500)

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 200650D43H445 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2006.