A3079 crash in West Devon on 12 June 2008 at 18:33 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A3079 in West Devon at 18:33 on Thursday 12 June 2008. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2008
- Thursday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75752, longitude -4.18593, in the EX21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850JO3B001
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B3218 in West Devon, 4 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200050C513429
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 30 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200950JO3B005
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 19 June 2023
20 m awayRef 2023501320492
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3079 in West Devon, 31 March 1995
30 m awayRef 199550C510379
Serious
Scooter crash on the B3218 in West Devon, 1 September 1980
350 m awayRef 198050H260400
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3218 in West Devon, 15 January 1986
478 m awayRef 198650C510036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 200850JO3B001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2008.