Unclassified road crash in Torridge EX18 on 27 December 2020 at 12:30 involving a Dacia Duster
A Dacia Duster and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torridge at 12:30 on Sunday 27 December 2020. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2020
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dacia Duster and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90614, longitude -3.90505, in the EX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020501014386
- Council area
- Torridge
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 157 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 24 July 2006
157 m awayRef 200650C25N581
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torridge, 25 May 1983
189 m awayRef 198350C430243
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 25 April 1988
189 m awayRef 198850C254418
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Torridge, 30 May 1982
192 m awayRef 198250C430183
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Torridge, 20 August 2001
293 m awayRef 200150C435122
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in North Devon, 29 June 2007
420 m awayRef 200750C25H565
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Duster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2020501014386 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torridge road accident statistics for 2020.