B3181 crash in East Devon on 25 September 2008 at 16:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3181 in East Devon at 16:10 on Thursday 25 September 2008. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2008
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79915, longitude -3.43985, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200850KO2L014
- Council area
- East 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
- 3181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 May 2008.
Serious
Honda CB600F crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 3 May 2008
32 m awayRef 200850KO2L002
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B3181 in East Devon, 9 March 2014
49 m awayRef 201450KO2L008
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 17 July 2003
108 m awayRef 200350D21M303
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 23 May 2006
108 m awayRef 200650D21G165
Slight
Renault crash on the B3181 in Exeter, 24 August 2007
114 m awayRef 200750D21K475
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in East Devon, 2 July 1981
121 m awayRef 198150J920663
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc 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 200850KO2L014 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.