Serious A379 crash in Teignbridge on 30 August 2014 at 09:53 involving a Kawasaki BN125 motorcycle
A Kawasaki BN125 motorcycle crashed on the A379 in Teignbridge at 09:53 on Saturday 30 August 2014. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 09:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki BN125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.5778, longitude -3.46834, in the EX7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dawlish. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dawlish South West, Teignbridge, EX7 9PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Teignbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450JG2A013
- Council area
- Teignbridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2005.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 9 July 2005
5 m awayRef 200550F43I639
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 22 August 1980
5 m awayRef 198050K861140
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 August 1986
14 m awayRef 198650F431335
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 18 April 2018
25 m awayRef 2018500292794
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 17 December 1984
59 m awayRef 198450F432699
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A379 in Teignbridge, 4 May 1992
70 m awayRef 199250F430670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki BN125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki BN125)
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 201450JG2A013 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Teignbridge road accident statistics for 2014.