Serious A386 crash in West Devon on 1 July 2016 at 17:29 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A386 in West Devon at 17:29 on Friday 1 July 2016. The 57-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jul 2016
- Friday, 17:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.53304, longitude -4.13924, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500103659
- Council area
- West Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 386
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2025.
Slight
KTM RC 125 crash on the A386 in West Devon, 5 February 2025
28 m awayRef 2025501550650
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A386 in West Devon, 4 October 2009
31 m awayRef 200950JT2W007
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 12 September 2021
33 m awayRef 2021501093667
Slight
Reliant Robin crash on the A386 in West Devon, 3 April 1991
57 m awayRef 199150E610739
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the A386 in West Devon, 13 January 1996
79 m awayRef 199650E610104
Serious
Car crash on the A386 in West Devon, 3 August 1982
90 m awayRef 198250G530681
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016500103659 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.