A377 crash in Mid Devon on 23 December 2012 at 13:08 involving a Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 13:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GS 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87145, longitude -3.84608, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KC5F007
- Council area
- Mid 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 20 March 2010
7 m awayRef 201050KC5F002
Slight
Volvo crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 5 December 2001
16 m awayRef 200150C257682
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 18 September 1990
75 m awayRef 199050C251014
Slight
Van crash on the A377 in North Devon, 8 October 1988
98 m awayRef 198850C255134
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon, 17 June 2007
126 m awayRef 200750D43G610
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A377 in Mid Devon, 17 October 1983
127 m awayRef 198350C250510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GS 500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 500)
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 201250KC5F007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2012.