Serious A377 crash in North Devon on 1 April 2011 at 23:36 involving a Piaggio Fly motorcycle
A Piaggio Fly motorcycle crashed on the A377 in North Devon at 23:36 on Friday 1 April 2011. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 2011
- Friday, 23:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Fly
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05228, longitude -4.04692, in the EX32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150CB2J003
- Council area
- North 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
- 377
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1995.
Slight
Alfa Romeo 75 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 1 October 1995
5 m awayRef 199550C211279
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A377 in North Devon, 10 September 2001
5 m awayRef 200150C215517
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A377 in North Devon, 14 April 1994
8 m awayRef 199450C210442
Serious
Car crash on the A377 in North Devon, 14 July 1987
14 m awayRef 198750C212709
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A377 in North Devon, 22 February 2010
14 m awayRef 201050CB2J002
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A377 in North Devon, 29 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025501676083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Fly
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Fly)
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 201150CB2J003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2011.