B3231 crash in North Devon on 12 May 2015 at 18:20 involving a Honda CBF600SA motorcycle
A car and a Honda CBF600SA motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B3231 in North Devon at 18:20 on Tuesday 12 May 2015. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF600SA motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2015
- Tuesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda CBF600SA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12186, longitude -4.23918, in the EX33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550CN2A003
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3231
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 2 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198650C230264
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 2 September 1995
116 m awayRef 199550C231125
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 14 March 1997
127 m awayRef 199750C210810
Slight
Mini One crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 9 September 2024
128 m awayRef 2024501492441
Serious
Car crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 26 July 1988
137 m awayRef 198850C234854
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3231 in North Devon, 17 August 2011
139 m awayRef 201150CN2F005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF600SA
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF600SA)
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 201550CN2A003 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.