B3123 crash in Exeter on 8 July 2011 at 22:24 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B3123 in Exeter at 22:24 on Friday 8 July 2011. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2011
- Friday, 22:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70048, longitude -3.52408, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alphington, Exeter, EX2 8PW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201150DE2T012
- Council area
- Exeter
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3123
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the B3123 in Exeter, 4 October 2014
2 m awayRef 201450DE2T017
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3123 in Exeter, 1 December 2005
4 m awayRef 200550D21P854
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 August 2003
7 m awayRef 200350D21J675
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the B3123 in Exeter, 11 September 1995
9 m awayRef 199550D211947
Slight
Car crash on the B3123 in Exeter, 13 October 2006
9 m awayRef 200650D21M836
Slight
Car crash on the B3123 in Exeter, 7 September 1989
9 m awayRef 198950D211534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc 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 201150DE2T012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2011.