Serious unclassified road crash in North Devon EX32 on 28 September 2012 at 07:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Devon at 07:00 on Friday 28 September 2012. The 50-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2012
- Friday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07215, longitude -4.04857, in the EX32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnstaple. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newport, North Devon, EX32 8NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250CB2U011
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 18 January 1989
4 m awayRef 198950C210058
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in North Devon, 19 September 1985
4 m awayRef 198550C210412
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 30 September 2002
6 m awayRef 200250C216588
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A361 in North Devon, 13 February 1982
10 m awayRef 198250C210030
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 10 May 2000
13 m awayRef 200050C212481
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 9 August 2008
19 m awayRef 200850CB2U022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 50, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201250CB2U011 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.