Serious A358 crash in East Devon on 5 November 2014 at 11:00 involving a Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A358 in East Devon at 11:00 on Wednesday 5 November 2014. The 24-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto ZSX 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Nov 2014
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto ZSX 125 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7688, longitude -3.00589, in the EX13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Axminster, East Devon, EX13 5QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201450KA2B006
- Council area
- East 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
- 358
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2024.
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A358 in East Devon, 24 June 2024
10 m awayRef 2024501463899
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A358 in East Devon, 16 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200450D36C069
Serious
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 27 March 1982
19 m awayRef 198250D360495
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A358 in East Devon, 16 November 1981
19 m awayRef 198150L790904
Slight
Car crash on the A358 in East Devon, 22 July 1982
27 m awayRef 198250D361242
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A358 in East Devon, 23 December 1988
40 m awayRef 198850D362154
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto ZSX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto ZSX 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 201450KA2B006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2014.