Serious A379 crash in the South Hams on 18 August 2018 at 18:30 involving a Honda CBR600RR motorcycle
A Honda CBR600RR motorcycle crashed on the A379 in the South Hams at 18:30 on Saturday 18 August 2018. The 33-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
- 18 Aug 2018
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR600RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.35117, longitude -3.95794, in the PL8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the South Hams
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500800465
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 379
- 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
- Moderately 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, 97 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 February 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 16 February 1981
97 m awayRef 198150G470106
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A379 in Plymouth, 13 August 1993
107 m awayRef 199350E522394
Slight
Honda Insight crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 4 November 2020
115 m awayRef 2020501015264
Slight
Car crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 17 January 2015
126 m awayRef 201550JI3G002
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 9 May 2007
138 m awayRef 200750E53F298
Slight
Van crash on the A379 in the South Hams, 22 February 2015
169 m awayRef 201550JI3G006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR600RR)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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 2018500800465 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 2018.