Serious unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 25 January 2007 at 17:15 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Proton Proton were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 17:15 on Thursday 25 January 2007. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 2007
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71719, longitude -3.47147, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D21A943
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 November 1991.
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82 m awayRef 199850D212189
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 1 October 2010
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Slight
Bus crash on the A376 in Exeter, 10 December 1998
122 m awayRef 199850D217552
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 6 November 1987
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 200750D21A943 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2007.