Serious A396 crash in Mid Devon on 3 November 2012 at 12:09 involving a Derbi Senda motorcycle
A Derbi Senda motorcycle and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A396 in Mid Devon at 12:09 on Saturday 3 November 2012. The 20-year-old male rider of the Derbi Senda motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2012
- Saturday, 12:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Derbi Senda and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80467, longitude -3.49889, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201250KT2F005
- 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
- 396
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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 serious injury crash on 29 June 2024.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 29 June 2024
4 m awayRef 2024501462829
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 15 November 1994
9 m awayRef 199450D412838
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 28 May 1999
13 m awayRef 199950D412985
Slight
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 18 August 1986
16 m awayRef 198650D411502
Serious
Car crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 16 January 1988
18 m awayRef 198850D410067
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A396 in Mid Devon, 20 April 2019
21 m awayRef 2019500838095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Derbi Senda
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Derbi Senda)
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 201250KT2F005 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.