A30 crash in East Devon on 21 May 2008 at 14:30 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
A Honda CBR125R motorcycle crashed on the A30 in East Devon at 14:30 on Wednesday 21 May 2008. The 18-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
- 21 May 2008
- Wednesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86564, longitude -3.06929, in the EX14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850KH2A002
- Council area
- East 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
- 30
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2023.
Serious
Triumph Daytona crash on the A30 in East Devon, 24 June 2023
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Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A30 in East Devon, 15 January 2025
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A30 in East Devon, 29 December 2005
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Serious
Car crash on the A30 in East Devon, 8 December 1982
50 m awayRef 198250D352271
Serious
Van crash on the A30 in East Devon, 28 June 1979
50 m awayRef 197950L780438
Slight
Morris 1100 crash on the A30 in East Devon, 7 October 1990
112 m awayRef 199050D351943
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
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 200850KH2A002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2008.