B3233 crash in North Devon on 14 December 2015 at 08:30 involving an Aprilia RSV Mille motorcycle
An Aprilia RSV Mille motorcycle crashed on the B3233 in North Devon at 08:30 on Monday 14 December 2015. The 43-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2015
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia RSV Mille
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02458, longitude -4.19681, in the EX39 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Instow, North Devon, EX39 4LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CB2Q015
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3233
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A386 in Torridge, 25 January 1988
8 m awayRef 198850C414067
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A386 in North Devon, 26 July 1997
38 m awayRef 199750C412564
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in North Devon, 17 September 1985
42 m awayRef 198550C410418
Slight
Bus crash on the A386 in Torridge, 25 October 1989
54 m awayRef 198950C411220
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A386 in North Devon, 27 November 1996
104 m awayRef 199650C413755
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3233 in North Devon, 28 July 2024
121 m awayRef 2024501476902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia RSV Mille
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia RSV Mille)
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 201550CB2Q015 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 2015.