Serious unclassified road crash in West Devon PL19 on 1 June 2020 at 14:40 involving a Peugeot Boxer van
A Peugeot Boxer van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Devon at 14:40 on Monday 1 June 2020. The 60-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 2020
- Monday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Boxer and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.54359, longitude -4.12425, 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
- 2020500955879
- 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
- 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
- Dry
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, 110 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in West Devon, 29 November 2000
110 m awayRef 200050E613180
Slight
Car crash on a C road in West Devon, 7 May 1986
160 m awayRef 198650E610856
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in West Devon, 21 April 1989
183 m awayRef 198950E610758
Slight
Daihatsu Terios crash on the A386 in West Devon, 3 March 2008
258 m awayRef 200850E61C177
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 30 December 2017
319 m awayRef 2017500260348
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Devon, 7 September 2018
322 m awayRef 2018500330237
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Boxer
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 60, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less 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 2020500955879 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 2020.