Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX39 on 14 December 2015 at 14:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Torridge at 14:15 on Monday 14 December 2015. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2015
- Monday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02003, longitude -4.19078, in the EX39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CD2E011
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201550CD2E011 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2015.