Unclassified road crash in West Devon PL20 on 2 June 2016 at 16:35 involving a Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle
A Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Devon at 16:35 on Thursday 2 June 2016. The 21-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2016
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Gilera Runner 125 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.49118, longitude -4.10928, in the PL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500086865
- Council area
- West 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
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 31 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200550E61K004
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 12 June 2021
23 m awayRef 2021501064162
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 1 September 2011
25 m awayRef 201150JT2R012
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 24 January 2025
31 m awayRef 2025501545969
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 8 May 1985
39 m awayRef 198550E610922
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 30 August 2019
39 m awayRef 2019500878223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Gilera Runner 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Gilera Runner 125)
- 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 2016500086865 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Devon road accident statistics for 2016.