Unclassified road crash in Exeter EX2 on 30 December 2018 at 21:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Exeter at 21:55 on Sunday 30 December 2018. The 30-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71086, longitude -3.51299, in the EX2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Exeter. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newtown and St Leonard's, Exeter, EX2 4RA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018500806329
- Council area
- Exeter
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3015
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Exeter, 18 August 2018
1 m awayRef 2018500324677
Slight
Car crash on the B3182 in Exeter, 16 March 1985
2 m awayRef 198550D210409
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3182 in Exeter, 26 June 2001
2 m awayRef 200150D213813
Serious
Car crash on the B3182 in Exeter, 26 June 1988
2 m awayRef 198850D210966
Slight
Car crash on the B3182 in Exeter, 4 April 1983
2 m awayRef 198350D210531
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3182 in Exeter, 12 September 1986
2 m awayRef 198650D211673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R1)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018500806329 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Exeter road accident statistics for 2018.