Serious unclassified road crash in Mid Devon EX15 on 27 November 2019 at 19:18 involving a Suzuki UK 110 motorcycle
A Suzuki UK 110 motorcycle and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Devon at 19:18 on Wednesday 27 November 2019. The 48-year-old male rider of the Suzuki UK 110 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 2019
- Wednesday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki UK 110 and Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82751, longitude -3.39353, in the EX15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500908410
- Council area
- Mid Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3181
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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2015.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 12 June 2015
3 m awayRef 201550KU2P001
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 9 October 2002
5 m awayRef 200250D426796
Serious
Car crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 9 July 1983
10 m awayRef 198350D421223
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 8 February 1995
15 m awayRef 199550D420324
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 27 April 1997
15 m awayRef 199750D421323
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B3181 in Mid Devon, 6 November 2002
27 m awayRef 200250D426682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki UK 110
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 113 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki UK 110)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019500908410 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Devon road accident statistics for 2019.