Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX16 on 31 December 2019 at 17:16 involving a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 17:16 on Tuesday 31 December 2019. The 52-year-old female rider 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
- 31 Dec 2019
- Tuesday, 17:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96274, longitude -3.63874, in the EX16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019500927651
- Council area
- North 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
- 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, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 August 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the B3221 in North Devon, 15 August 1986
16 m awayRef 198650C240867
Slight
Car crash on the B3221 in North Devon, 16 February 1988
21 m awayRef 198850C254154
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 16 November 2021
30 m awayRef 2021501119243
Slight
Car crash on the B3221 in North Devon, 30 July 1986
429 m awayRef 198650C250760
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in North Devon, 7 October 1999
630 m awayRef 199950C255954
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in North Devon, 11 June 1990
652 m awayRef 199050C250589
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1000)
- 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 2019500927651 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Devon road accident statistics for 2019.