B3181 crash in Mid Devon on 12 October 2009 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa, a Gilera Runner motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon at 08:30 on Monday 12 October 2009. The 16-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2009
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87934, longitude -3.38276, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200950KU2I017
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 40 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 16 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198150L910813
Slight
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 25 May 1988
45 m awayRef 198850D420806
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 26 January 1993
81 m awayRef 199350D420260
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Mid Devon, 30 June 1996
86 m awayRef 199650D421995
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 30 January 1998
92 m awayRef 199850D420837
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 3 July 1992
92 m awayRef 199250D421014
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Gilera Runner
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Gilera Runner)
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 200950KU2I017 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2009.