Serious unclassified road crash in West Devon PL19 on 7 April 2019 at 11:30 involving a Triumph Tiger motorcycle
A Triumph Tiger motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in West Devon at 11:30 on Sunday 7 April 2019. A 59-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Apr 2019
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Tiger
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60124, longitude -4.16592, in the PL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500834343
- Council area
- West 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2009.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A379 in West Devon, 3 April 2009
60 m awayRef 200950JT2L001
Serious
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 22 April 1989
250 m awayRef 198950E610777
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 25 August 1980
340 m awayRef 198050G530662
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 19 December 1979
383 m awayRef 197950G531130
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 30 May 1979
395 m awayRef 197950G530423
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in West Devon, 7 December 1995
452 m awayRef 199550E613070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Tiger
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,215 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 59, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Tiger)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019500834343 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 2019.