Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX4 on 4 August 2007 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Exeter at 13:00 on Saturday 4 August 2007. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2007
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72998, longitude -3.57333, in the EX4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200750D21J323
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 May 1985.
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 7 May 1985
41 m awayRef 198550D210743
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 15 July 1993
60 m awayRef 199350D211707
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 4 July 2004
85 m awayRef 200450D21I928
Serious
Gilera Stalker crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 15 July 2007
114 m awayRef 200750D21I544
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Teignbridge, 30 June 1987
143 m awayRef 198750D210970
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Teignbridge, 26 June 1999
247 m awayRef 199950D213523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 200750D21J323 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.