Serious unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 29 June 2012 at 14:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 14:20 on Friday 29 June 2012. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jun 2012
- Friday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10307, longitude -4.00711, 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
- 201250CB2H001
- Council area
- North Devon
- 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
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
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, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1984.
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 18 February 1984
59 m awayRef 198450C210060
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 August 2003
63 m awayRef 200350C21O334
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 15 September 2016
97 m awayRef 2016500112406
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 18 November 2017
104 m awayRef 2017500252191
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 13 December 1986
148 m awayRef 198650C211321
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 23 April 1983
156 m awayRef 198350C210158
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 201250CB2H001 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 2012.