A30 crash in West Devon on 16 August 2017 at 13:52 involving a BMW R 1200 motorcycle
A BMW R 1200 motorcycle crashed on the A30 in West Devon at 13:52 on Wednesday 16 August 2017. The 36-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 13:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW R 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72002, longitude -3.84753, in the EX20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Drewsteignton, West Devon, EX20 2QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500218052
- Council area
- West 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
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2010.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A30 in West Devon, 12 December 2010
4 m awayRef 201050JO2N012
Fatal
Renault Laguna crash on the A30 in West Devon, 11 June 1998
10 m awayRef 199850C513325
Fatal
Reliant Rialto crash on the A30 in West Devon, 23 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199850C516439
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A30 in West Devon, 23 March 2019
10 m awayRef 2019500830426
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A30 in West Devon, 26 September 2020
11 m awayRef 2020500987206
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A30 in West Devon, 4 November 2013
13 m awayRef 201350JO2N008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW R 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R 1200)
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 2017500218052 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 2017.