Serious A375 crash in East Devon on 6 September 2016 at 20:45 involving a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A375 in East Devon at 20:45 on Tuesday 6 September 2016. The 17-year-old male rider of the Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2016
- Tuesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha WR 125 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69707, longitude -3.23595, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sidmouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidmouth Sidford, East Devon, EX10 9TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016500111392
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 375
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 11 December 1980
1 m awayRef 198050L810993
Slight
Van crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 12 July 1984
1 m awayRef 198450D331174
Slight
Car crash on the B3175 in East Devon, 19 November 1986
1 m awayRef 198650D332215
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A375 in East Devon, 19 March 2019
5 m awayRef 2019500826338
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the A375 in East Devon, 9 May 2013
6 m awayRef 201350KS2G005
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 9 August 2001
9 m awayRef 200150D334806
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha WR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha WR 125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016500111392 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.