Unclassified road crash in East Devon EX10 on 1 October 2017 at 23:00 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
A Honda CBR125R motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in East Devon at 23:00 on Sunday 1 October 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR125R and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69736, longitude -3.29702, in the EX10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton Poppleford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newton Poppleford & Harpford, East Devon, EX10 0DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017500233622
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 104 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 August 2021.
Serious
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104 m awayRef 2021501084364
Slight
Car crash on a C road in East Devon, 10 August 1986
110 m awayRef 198650D331478
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 3 December 2020
131 m awayRef 2020501007776
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 6 April 2008
131 m awayRef 200850KS2B001
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in East Devon, 15 September 1979
175 m awayRef 197950L810660
Serious
Mitsubishi Space Star crash on the A3052 in East Devon, 14 September 2003
204 m awayRef 200350D33K918
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
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 2017500233622 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 2017.