A385 crash in the South Hams on 11 September 2014 at 15:09 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle crashed on the A385 in the South Hams at 15:09 on Thursday 11 September 2014. The 56-year-old male rider 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 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 15:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda WW125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.43116, longitude -3.67798, in the TQ9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Totnes, South Hams, TQ9 5RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450JS2A005
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 385
- 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 7 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201050JS2A002
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 28 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200050F511744
Slight
Van crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 8 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200550F51I306
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A385 in the South Hams, 23 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201550JS2A002
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 8 December 2016
16 m awayRef 2016500149184
Serious
Car crash on the A381 in the South Hams, 17 February 1980
18 m awayRef 198050G510130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
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 201450JS2A005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2014.