A399 crash in North Devon on 22 December 2008 at 12:30 involving a Gilera Runner motorcycle
A car and a Gilera Runner motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A399 in North Devon at 12:30 on Monday 22 December 2008. The 16-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2008
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Gilera Runner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20011, longitude -4.02559, in the EX34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Combe Martin.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CI2F008
- Council area
- North 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
- 399
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 31 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200150C316829
Slight
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 9 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198550C310518
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A399 in North Devon, 22 January 2005
14 m awayRef 200550C31A805
Slight
Car crash on the A399 in North Devon, 2 October 1989
14 m awayRef 198950C311111
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A399 in North Devon, 8 April 1991
20 m awayRef 199150C310300
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 28 September 2001
50 m awayRef 200150C315992
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Gilera Runner
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200850CI2F008 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 2008.