B3230 crash in North Devon on 5 June 2008 at 18:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3230 in North Devon at 18:15 on Thursday 5 June 2008. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2008
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14305, longitude -4.07414, in the EX31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850CN2D001
- 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
- 3230
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 August 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 7 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198250C210324
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 8 August 2010
14 m awayRef 201050CN2D004
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 6 October 1993
22 m awayRef 199350C231269
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 1 February 2025
27 m awayRef 2025501549107
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 11 December 2017
28 m awayRef 2017500254906
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3230 in North Devon, 2 August 1981
32 m awayRef 198150H560380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc 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 200850CN2D001 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.