Unclassified road crash in North Devon EX34 on 20 January 2020 at 09:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in North Devon at 09:10 on Monday 20 January 2020. The 45-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2020
- Monday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1992, longitude -4.11017, in the EX34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500934830
- 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
- 30 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
- Frost or ice
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, 55 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 November 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Devon, 17 November 1987
55 m awayRef 198750C313299
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 5 October 2007
105 m awayRef 200750C31M603
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 22 August 2025
115 m awayRef 2025501631972
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Devon, 6 February 1987
152 m awayRef 198750C312107
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on a C road in North Devon, 3 October 1992
208 m awayRef 199250C310891
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 12 March 2019
275 m awayRef 2019500833231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020500934830 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 2020.