Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX5 on 12 August 2015 at 15:50 involving an Audi A1
A motorcycle and an Audi A1 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 15:50 on Wednesday 12 August 2015. The 37-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73034, longitude -3.459, in the EX5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201550KO2L010
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2025.
Slight
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Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A30 in East Devon, 18 November 1997
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A3015 in East Devon, 20 October 2012
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Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A30 in East Devon, 15 May 1991
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Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A30 in East Devon, 15 August 2013
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 201550KO2L010 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 2015.