Serious B3223 crash in North Devon on 20 September 2008 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3223 in North Devon at 17:15 on Saturday 20 September 2008. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18483, longitude -3.77622, in the EX35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CL2F001
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3223
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 272 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2002.
Slight
Subaru crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 1 December 2002
272 m awayRef 200250C217255
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 26 May 1996
287 m awayRef 199650C321573
Slight
Car crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 28 March 1986
367 m awayRef 198650C320235
Slight
Car crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 6 December 1985
394 m awayRef 198550C320573
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 25 October 2019
411 m awayRef 2019500898174
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3223 in North Devon, 16 August 1979
424 m awayRef 197950H590366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 200850CL2F001 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.