Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX31 on 27 December 2013 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Devon at 11:40 on Friday 27 December 2013. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2013
- Friday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06885, longitude -4.12763, in the EX31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fremington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fremington, North Devon, EX31 3AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201350CB3C006
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 144 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 12 May 2003
144 m awayRef 200350C21I255
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 23 September 1989
159 m awayRef 198950C211077
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 1 November 2000
174 m awayRef 200050C215890
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 2 June 2003
180 m awayRef 200350C21G792
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 22 July 1980
193 m awayRef 198050H560311
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 21 July 1999
204 m awayRef 199950C214295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201350CB3C006 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 2013.