Serious unclassified road crash in the South Hams PL7 on 21 July 2012 at 12:23 involving a Harley-Davidson XL 883 motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson XL 883 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the South Hams at 12:23 on Saturday 21 July 2012. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jul 2012
- Saturday, 12:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Harley-Davidson XL 883
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.38023, longitude -4.00355, in the PL7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newton & Yealmpton, South Hams, PL7 5AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250JI4M008
- Council area
- South Hams
- 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
- 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
- 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, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2011.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 19 April 2011
27 m awayRef 201150JI4M008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in the South Hams, 11 June 1983
30 m awayRef 198350E531040
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 26 March 2008
33 m awayRef 200850E51C798
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A38 in the South Hams, 17 December 2025
35 m awayRef 2025501684610
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 31 January 2003
38 m awayRef 200350E53A968
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in Plymouth, 8 April 1999
40 m awayRef 199950E510765
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson XL 883
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson XL 883)
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 201250JI4M008 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2012.