Serious B3174 crash in East Devon on 7 September 2022 at 14:33 involving a Keeway Superlight motorcycle
A Keeway Superlight motorcycle crashed on the B3174 in East Devon at 14:33 on Wednesday 7 September 2022. The 24-year-old male rider 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
- 7 Sep 2022
- Wednesday, 14:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Keeway Superlight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74912, longitude -3.3049, in the EX11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Devon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022501227135
- Council area
- East Devon
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3174
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 13 July 2017
12 m awayRef 2017500210407
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 9 January 2020
16 m awayRef 2020500941729
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 14 December 2020
24 m awayRef 2020501017495
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 30 March 2008
52 m awayRef 200850D35D183
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 22 June 2003
62 m awayRef 200350D35H753
Serious
Volvo crash on the B3174 in East Devon, 26 January 2020
132 m awayRef 2020500928603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Keeway Superlight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway Superlight)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2022501227135 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Devon road accident statistics for 2022.