B3226 crash in North Devon on 1 September 2020 at 15:47 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B3226 in North Devon at 15:47 on Tuesday 1 September 2020. The 67-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2020
- Tuesday, 15:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00836, longitude -3.86385, in the EX36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Devon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020500988977
- Council area
- North Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3226
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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 slight injury crash on 4 December 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 4 December 2018
16 m awayRef 2018500803847
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 7 August 2019
182 m awayRef 2019500883540
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 9 August 2016
199 m awayRef 2016500103694
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A379 in Exeter, 15 March 2004
316 m awayRef 200450D21D357
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 22 July 1989
514 m awayRef 198950C240769
Slight
Car crash on the B3226 in North Devon, 8 September 2019
551 m awayRef 2019500880098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 67, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020500988977 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.