Serious B3417 crash in the South Hams on 10 August 2017 at 18:13 involving a Yamaha MT07 motorcycle
A Yamaha MT07 motorcycle crashed on the B3417 in the South Hams at 18:13 on Thursday 10 August 2017. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2017
- Thursday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha MT07
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.42194, longitude -4.02746, in the PL7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500212943
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3417
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 77 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1995.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 22 March 1995
77 m awayRef 199550E510713
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 22 March 2020
174 m awayRef 2020500946955
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 17 September 2019
178 m awayRef 2019500885487
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 1 March 1994
324 m awayRef 199450E510586
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 19 August 2014
355 m awayRef 201450JI4M018
Slight
Car crash on the B3417 in the South Hams, 24 July 2006
488 m awayRef 200650E21L253
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT07
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 689 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT07)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017500212943 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 2017.