Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 12 February 2008 at 21:40 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 21:40 on Tuesday 12 February 2008. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen AX and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7122, longitude -3.53732, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Thomas, Exeter, EX2 9BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850D21B930
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 3 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198350D210752
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 8 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198950D211946
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A377 in Exeter, 16 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198550D211572
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in Exeter, 20 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198150J651177
Slight
Van crash on the A377 in Exeter, 3 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198450D211751
Slight
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A377 in Exeter, 23 April 2025
2 m awayRef 2025501581117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 200850D21B930 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 2008.