Serious unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 27 September 2010 at 13:35 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 13:35 on Monday 27 September 2010. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Sep 2010
- Monday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99622, longitude -4.27523, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201050CD2H002
- Council area
- Torridge
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 February 2015.
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 18 February 2015
9 m awayRef 201550CD2H001
Fatal
Vehicle crash on the A39 in Torridge, 28 May 1987
22 m awayRef 198750C412494
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A39 in Torridge, 27 May 1993
57 m awayRef 199350C410535
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A39 in Torridge, 3 February 1997
57 m awayRef 199750C410314
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A39 in Torridge, 13 August 1996
57 m awayRef 199650C412481
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Torridge, 24 February 1988
64 m awayRef 198850C414212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
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 201050CD2H002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2010.