A39 crash in Torridge on 15 May 2016 at 12:42 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2016
- Sunday, 12:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98439, longitude -4.41129, in the EX39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500069980
- Council area
- Torridge
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3248
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 9 January 2002
2 m awayRef 200250C410113
Fatal
Yamaha YZF crash on the A39 in Torridge, 20 March 2022
8 m awayRef 2022501155535
Serious
Kawasaki BX 125 crash on the A39 in Torridge, 5 October 2022
8 m awayRef 2022501227356
Slight
Ford Ecosport crash on the A39 in Torridge, 21 January 2022
12 m awayRef 2022501150260
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A39 in Torridge, 24 September 2021
15 m awayRef 2021501103762
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Torridge, 26 July 1980
21 m awayRef 198050H610316
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016500069980 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 2016.