A385 crash in Torbay on 11 May 2014 at 07:28 involving a Pulse XF 125 motorcycle
A car and a Pulse XF 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A385 in Torbay at 07:28 on Sunday 11 May 2014. The 27-year-old male rider of the Pulse XF 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2014
- Sunday, 07:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Pulse XF 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42948, longitude -3.60004, in the TQ4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Collaton St Mary.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450FP2B009
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 385
- 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
- Dry
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2014.
Slight
Lexmoto HT 125 crash on the A385 in Torbay, 7 August 2014
2 m awayRef 201450FP2B022
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A385 in Torbay, 9 March 2001
9 m awayRef 200150F211421
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 7 February 1982
24 m awayRef 198250K710153
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 30 August 1981
24 m awayRef 198150K711206
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A385 in Torbay, 7 September 1982
24 m awayRef 198250K711342
Serious
Car crash on the A385 in Torbay, 18 September 1986
27 m awayRef 198650F211544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Pulse XF 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Pulse XF 125)
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 201450FP2B009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torbay road accident statistics for 2014.