Serious unclassified road crash in East Devon EX3 on 13 April 2016 at 09:45 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 09:45 on Wednesday 13 April 2016. The 17-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Apr 2016
- Wednesday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBF125M and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68446, longitude -3.45843, in the EX3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500062060
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 November 1980.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Exeter, 5 November 1980
11 m awayRef 198050J671107
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 29 June 2007
11 m awayRef 200750D21H477
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 8 November 2025
26 m awayRef 2025501666989
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Exeter, 15 April 1995
31 m awayRef 199550D210854
Slight
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Exeter, 23 November 1994
34 m awayRef 199450D212880
Fatal
Honda crash on a C road in Exeter, 5 June 1991
39 m awayRef 199150D210939
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016500062060 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 2016.